(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV’s 70th birthday is Sept. 14, and OSV News and many partners are gathering a spiritual bouquet of prayer for him; here are a few ideas for how to pray at home, at school and in your parish.
Be sure to add your prayers to the pope’s birthday spiritual bouquet — we will be sending him a card with the prayers and names of those who participate! And tag @OSVNews so we can share your example of prayer with others.
At home
— Pray a rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy or other prayer (prayer resources can be found at usccb.org/catholic-prayers)
— Pray the Liturgy of the Hours with Sing the Hours (singthehours.org)
— Pray a novena for the pope (a Holy Cross novena starts Sept. 6 with PrayMoreNovenas.com)
— Pray the Rosary with Relevant Radio every night at 7 p.m. CT
At the parish
— Have a Mass or Holy Hour for the pope
— Say a prayer or Rosary before or after Mass together (especially on his Sunday birthday!)
— Invite your parish groups to say a prayer at a gathering or event
— Pray a “living Rosary” where each person takes a turn in saying a prayer of the Rosary
— Pray the Liturgy of the Hours as a community
At school
— Pray for the pope at an all-school Rosary or Mass
— Incorporate a prayer on pizza day in the school cafeteria
— Have children pray and create “beads” out of construction paper or balloons for a collectively created Rosary to hang in a school common area
— Set up a bulletin board with paper flowers and pens so children can write prayers and pin them to the board
— Color coloring sheets of the mysteries of the Rosary while praying a decade for the pope
Don’t forget to register your prayers. We want to be able to present Pope Leo with an overwhelming show of prayer!
