PRAYERS of the SVP

	FOR THOSE WE VISIT We thank you Lord, for being with us during this meeting. With your help we will endeavour to carry out our work for the poor. Help us to love and respect them, to understand their deeper needs and to share their burdens and joys as true friends. We thank you for the many blessings we receive from those we visit.
FOR THE HEIRARCHY AND FELLOW VINCENTIANS Grant your grace and blessings to our Holy Father, our Bishops and Priests and to all who help us in our work; to our Vincentian brothers and sisters, especially our twinned members and to any member of the Society or their families who may be troubled or in need.
For the canonisation of BLESSED FREDERIC OZANAM O God, who put the love of the poor into the hearts of Frederic Ozanam and his companions and inspired them to found a society for the relief of the coporal and spiritual miseries of those in want, bless this work of charity and zeal; and should it be in accordance with your designs, that Blessed Frederic Ozanam should be glorified by the Church, we beseech You to manifest, by heavenly favours, the power he enjoys in your sight through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
PETITION PRAYER O God, our Father, You alone have the power to bestow those precious gifts of yours which we rightly call miracles. If it be your will, be pleased to grant such a gift, on behalf of those persons for whom the prayers of the Society have been requested and for ...................................... . We humbly ask that You grant this favour to glorify Blessed Frederic Ozanam that it may serve to call him saint by our Holy Mother the Church. We make this prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son. Amen.
FOR OUR LEADERS Thank you Father, for having called men and women into leadership in the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Thank you for having given them the courage for accepting this call. Thank you for giving them the vision to prepare others to follow them. Stand by them that they may discern your will and carry it out. Amen.
FOR VOCATIONS O God, we earnestly beseech You to bless our country with many priests, brothers and sisters who will love You with their whole strength and will gladly spend their entire lives to serve your Church and to make You known and loved. Bless our homes; bless our families. Choose from them all those who are needed for your holy work. Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us. Pray for our priests and religious. Obtain for us many more. Amen.

V. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus	R. Have mercy on us.
V. Queen conceived without sin	R. Pray for us.
V. St. Joseph	R. Pray for us.
V. St. Vincent de Paul	R. Pray for us.
V. Blessed Frederic Ozanam	R. Pray for us.
V. St. (Confernce patron)	R. Pray for us.

	FOR DESEASED MEMBERS of the VINCENTIAN FAMILY Welcome into your light of your presence, those who have died. Grant that one day, our friends and relatives, those we visit and our Vincentian brothers and sisters may all come before You in the perfection of love.
INVOCATION to the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY We fly to your patronage, O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin. Amen.