Prayer for the Year of Consecrated Life.

O God, throughout the ages you have called women and men

to pursue lives of perfect charity through the evangelical counsels

of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

During this Year of Consecrated Life, we give you thanks

for these courageous witnesses of Faith and models of inspiration.

Their pursuit of holy lives teaches us to make a more perfect offering of ourselves to you. 

Continue to enrich your Church by calling forth sons and daughters who,

having found the pearl of great price,

treasure the Kingdom of Heaven above all things.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever. Amen.