PRAYER FOR HIS INTERCESSION
O Saint John Neumann,
your ardent desire of bringing all souls to Christ
impelled you to leave home and country;
teach us to live worthily in the spirit of our Baptism
which makes us all children of the one Heavenly Father and brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ,
the first-born of the family of God.
Obtain for us that complete dedication in the service of the needy,
the weak, the afflicted and the abandoned which so characterized your life.
Help us to walk perseveringly in the difficult and,
at times, painful paths of duty,
strengthened by the Body and Blood of our Redeemer
and under the watchful protection of Mary our Mother.
May death still find us on the sure road to our Father's House
with the light of living Faith in our hearts.
Amen.
