VOCATIONAL ROSARY

The emeritus Pope Benedict XVI stated during his visit to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima:
The prayer of the Rosary allows us to place our eyes and our hearts on Jesus, as His
Mother, unsurpassable model of contemplation of the Son.

While meditating on the joyful, luminous, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries, reciting the Hail Marys,
we contemplate all the mystery of Jesus, from the Incarnation to the Cross and the glory of the
Resurrección; contemplamos la íntima participación de María en este misterio y nuestra vida
in Christ today, where we are more aware than ever, that this is also woven from
moments of joy and pain, of shadows and light, of contradictions and hopes.
During this Good Shepherd Week 2020, in the intimacy of our homes, while praying in
family is Vocational Rosario, we want to ask the Lord for the intercession of the Virgin Mary,
May God bless the countries of the world that are suffering in this difficult hour, the church, and families.
So that He grants us all a generous heart to serve Him from the received vocation, and
Like Mary, let us serve our brothers and sisters in need in this dark hour.

We ask the owner of the vineyard to send workers to his vineyard. Call from our families,
priestly vocations, religious, laypeople, and marriages that propose with their life the
extension of the Kingdom.

How to pray the Rosary

❖ By the sign of the Holy Cross...

❖ I confess...
❖ I believe in God the Father...
• The mystery is announced

• A person reads the motivation

• Another person reads the intention

• The Our Father is prayed, 10 Hail Marys, and the glory.

• The final prayer of each mystery is recited.

 Mysterious Joys
(Monday and Saturday)

FIRST MYSTERY: The Angel's Annunciation to Mary

Most Holy.

Motivation: This mystery invites us to delve into

the wonders that the Lord is capable of performing in
those people who trust in His Word.
Contemplating the heart of Mary, praying woman,
we can penetrate her humility and simplicity. She us
shows better than anyone the attitude of listening and
welcoming of the Word. And this listening and receiving
produce fruit. It makes Mary a cooperator of
the work of redemption, because it makes salvation possible
of the world that His Son comes to bring. She welcomed the
Word with simplicity and boldness, pronouncing a
let it be done
she would give a motherhood through her virginity
unique. The context is nothing special, it is about
from a little insignificant village, Nazareth; from a simple girl, Mary. And it is that the Lord
prefers the small, the simple, that which does not attract attention. It is there that the Spirit of God
camp, in the hidden, in the discreet, in the praying silence. Let us contemplate, therefore, how
God comes to humanity, approaches man in that smallness, becomes present in the
the heart of someone who listens to His Word, who welcomes it and who is able to renounce themselves
same.

Intention: In contemplating this mystery, we ask for the intercession of Mary our Mother, that
teach us to accept God's will in our life, and accompany our youth and
that they say yes to the Lord and commit themselves to His service. We also pray for women
single and abandoned mothers who feel in Mary the strength to move forward and educate with
wisdom and love for their children.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord Jesus, help us to offer you our 'let it be', in the listening of the everyday.
being your presence for others. May Mary, your Mother, take us by the hand to believe
in the impossible, to be poor in heart, to love humility, simplicity, and smallness and
to be able to remain with an open attitude towards your will and your Word. Amen
SECOND MYSTERY: The visit of Mary to her holy cousin Elizabeth.

Motivation: When contemplating this mystery, we realize that every true encounter
it is a space of fertility. Surely we all have the experience of having encountered
truly and deeply with someone, and we know that this happens when both
hearts "drink from the same well", resonate in unison. María and Isabel, undoubtedly, they
they found; her living from within turned a visit into a meeting. Both were able to
connect with your innermost self and relate from there. We are unaware of the motivation of
When María set out on her journey, we do not know what she was looking for, whether to help, or for a confirmation of the

words of the angel, if only I wanted to share it... Knowing a little the heart of the Son,
we also know the one of the Mother: 'The Son of Man has not come to be served, but to
to serve". María did not remain enjoying the mystic encounter with God. She knew how to combine the
love for God and love for neighbor, She lived the mystique of everyday life, the 'mystique of
He began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel with which he was.
tight

Intent: In a society so closed off from itself, in which so many young people wander
always in their own; in this era where face-to-face communication barely exists. That the
the life of Mary challenges us and makes us step out of comfort and look at the world, look at the
eyes on the brother, look and go to meet him.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria
Sentence: Maria, infect us with your way of serving, of looking and of loving, so that our young people
discover in you the joy of serving others. May we learn from you the art of
meeting with each person, that we may see Jesus dwelling in our brothers

THIRD MYSTERY: The birth of the Son of God.

Motivation: María, like all Mothers, wanted the best for her Son. Perhaps she would have preferred
a better place to give birth to the Son of God, but in light of the precariousness of the situation no
she can do something else that makes herself available space for God, receptivity,
possibility of shelter. Only in Mary does God find lodging. And so, Mary did not only give birth
but gave light to the world, not without the discomfort of the consequences of childbirth.
Surely that night was not free of tears, suffering, anguish, and rejection, but
Mary lived prophetically the words that her Son will say years later: 'The woman, when she goes
Giving birth, she is sad, because her time has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she is no longer.
He remembers the plight for the joy that a man has been born into the world.
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Intention: For young people with a vocation for marriage, so that they form families, that they give
testimony of God, and his children discover the joy of knowing Him and serving Him.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Prayer: Mary mother, woman full of God, we ask you to intercede for all families so that
may they live in love, hope, and joy of having Jesus as the center of their lives.

FOURTH MYSTERY: The presentation of Jesus in the temple.

Motivation: In this mystery, we contemplate the purification of Mary and the presentation of
Jesus in the Temple. The family of Nazareth travels to Jerusalem to fulfill what the law
He prescribed. The whole life of Jesus is a constant kénosis (self-emptying), that is why we can
to intuit that this, which seems like a simple compliance with the law, is an indication of what will be a
permanent attitude throughout his earthly life. It is a whole God emptying himself of himself and
submitting, in freedom, to human laws out of pure love for the Redemptive work of the Father.
Many do not recognize the Savior. Especially the religious men, the wise and
understood, eager to meet God, they are unable to grasp the signs of the
new and particular presence of the Messiah. The simplest, like these two elders, Simeon
and Ana is indeed capable of seeing that sign and that novelty because she makes space for the Spirit,
waiting to be guided toward what God had promised them: "the consolation of Israel." Thus,
led by the Spirit, they find in the Temple that Child: Christ. Such an encounter and
prophetic gaze causes the New Testament to begin and the Old Testament to be fulfilled with the
joy of the arrival of the Redeemer, because 'true prophecy comes from God, from friendship
with him, from the attentive listening to his Word in the various circumstances of history.
Intention: We pray for the children and young people so that they may discover in Jesus of Nazareth, a
reason for hope and excitement for life. May they see in Jesus the friend who never
failure.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria
Lord, may we know how to listen to the whisper of the Spirit that guides us towards the
donation of our existence for the good of our brothers. Mary, You who show yourself
always available to the will of God, teach us to dedicate each day, between a
occupation and another, our life, our thoughts, our whole being
FIFTH MYSTERY: The lost and found child Jesus in the temple.

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Motivation: How much suffering until finding it! It is easy to imagine the worry,
anguish and anxiety of Mary and Joseph when they realized that Jesus had not returned
with them. Not finding him immediately, they went back to look for him. The surprise of his parents
was to find him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers who listened to him and asked him questions.
questions. This scene represents Jesus as a child but with the wisdom of adults. This
being with the teachers only demonstrated one thing: that they recognized in Jesus a wisdom and a
intelligence that left them astonished and that's why they let him be there, with them.

Intention: So that our young people and children find in their parents, love, acceptance,
and the acceptance so that feeling loved they can give that love to other people.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord, make us seek you always in every event of our life, that
let us not be content with seeing you from afar, let our desires to reach You be the driving force of
our existence. That like your Mother, we may step out of ourselves to begin the path
towards the center of your heart.

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Sorrowful Mysteries
(Tuesday and Friday)

FIRST MYSTERY: The Prayer of Jesus in the

Garden

Motivation: Jesus needed a moment of intimacy

with the Father, for that he went up to the Mount of Olives where
he experienced the need for a force that would nurture him.
The difficulty did not make him flee or escape, but rather it
allowed to go even deeper into his inner self, to have a
moment of discernment, and at the same time, feel loneliness and
desolation. And although he did not find the face of the Father
but the 'void,' was completely abandoned through the
prayer, the moment when the Son offered to God the
own desires, he affirmed in his: "not my will be done but yours"
your's
yours the desires of salvation, and assuming
voluntarily give one’s life.

Intention: We pray for our youth, that amidst their fears and anxieties they discover
and accept the will of God in their lives. That they abandon their plans for the will of God.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Prayer: Jesus, we ask you to teach us to adhere to the plans of God the Father and to live from
The confident prayer of the events of our life, putting everything in your hands and trusting.
in your Word. Mary, may we, like you, learn to accept God's will in our lives.
to keep His Word in our heart.

SECOND MYSTERY: The Flagellation of the Lord.

Motivation: Jesus is the suffering Servant of Israel. He experiences in the Passion the hardness of
the social injustices in which there are usually countless victims. Jesus is compassionate.
(suffers from) so many sufferers whose rights are taken away. He is the just one.
who suffers unjustly. He 'gives his skin' out of pure love. He takes on the 'whips of life'.
to restore our freedom. It is the Passion of a God who gives himself drop by drop, like bread
that is to be kneaded, chewed, and crushed 'so that we may have life.

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Intention: We ask Lord, for the young people locked in their personal world, who are
indifferent to the injustices that surround them; that they listen to the cry of the poor touching
at their doors and allow themselves to be challenged and respond to these situations.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria
Lord, You who gave us an example of a life completely given drop by drop,
teach us to detach ourselves from those walls, from the epidermis that often obstructs
our real encounter with the other. That we live with a burning heart, aware that
our happiness takes shape, as we become means for happiness to grow
from our brother.
THIRD MYSTERY: The Coronation of Thorns.
Motivation: Jesus had recognized before Pilate that he was King. He said of himself: 'For that I have...'
born and for that I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth.” A king who now
he is crowned with thorns, a king who lowers himself so much that his glory is built and glimpsed
in his crown with that which hurts the most. The thorns that pierce the forehead of the Lord are
all the sins of humanity: selfishness, envy, irrationality, hatred, unrequited love,
the inability to forgive, greed, and all those things that destroy the heart of man
Well. And it is that Jesus transforms everything he touches. God wanted to involve man in his
plan of salvation, came down to earth, assumed our condition and wanted to start from what we are,
from what we have, to transform ourselves and save ourselves.

Intention: We pray for all the peoples who live in injustice and marginalization, so that
be freed from oppression and that their people emerge as brave young ones who fight and make
assert their rights.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord, You who are crowned as King of the humble, the simple, the poor,
those who do not count... give us a heart willing to collaborate with the expansion of your Kingdom.
Mary, Our Mother, make us sensitive to the needs of our less fortunate brothers.
disadvantaged.

FOURTH MYSTERY: Jesus carrying the Cross Motivation: The way of the cross to
Jesus does not mean the abandonment, the silence, or the condemnation of God. It is true that it is a path.
it costs, yes, but this path of the cross was and continues to be the path chosen by God for
save us. It's not about carrying a meaningless cross, it's not about bearing pain and the

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suffering for no reason, it is about choosing to bear the cross out of love. The cross that Jesus bears is
our sins and despises, but he takes it as his own and in it we can recognize
a whole loving God, who freely and voluntarily surrenders for the redemption of all
humanity.

Intention: We ask the Lord to raise up priestly and religious vocations from His people.
lay and marital, that help to bear the cross of the suffering of their brothers more
disadvantaged.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Prayer: Help us, Lord, to learn that life without sacrifice has no value. May our
Life glorifies You who wanted to shed Your blood for us. Thank You for redeeming our
humanity, grant us the grace to embrace our cross and that through the intercession of your Mother
may our sufferings and fears turn into fruits of love.

FIFTH MYSTERY: The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord.

Motivation: On the cross dies the righteous, the King of the Jews, the Son of God. Jesus cries out to his
Father who remains silent, lets his enemies feel victorious and mock.
at its width, may they remain secure in their positions because the Father awaits the complete triumph
and definitive in the Resurrection, where everything makes sense, where it is understood that the Son of
God had to suffer to make us partakers of his immortal glory.
Intention: We pray for the continuers of the mission of Jesus, for those who give their lives, drop.
the drop, in the complete donation of his life for the salvation of men, especially for
the priests, religious, and lay missionaries.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria
Lord, may the contemplation of your love, manifested in the Passion and Death of your
son of Jesus Christ, touch our hearts and make the decision to respond arise in it with a
love similar to yours.

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Glorious Mysteries
(Wednesday and Sunday)

With María, let us be dazzled by looking without

fear, the sun that rises from above and that
shines with the fullness of its glory in the
Resurrection, in the Ascension, in the strength of
Holy Spirit.

FIRST MYSTERY: The Resurrection of the Lord

Motivation: Mary Magdalene and the other Mary,

they were looking for a dead Jesus, but they find
with the "greatest joy", Jesus is alive. This
announcement can only be understood if you remove the
foundations and the roots of your life, to leave a
let go of all that is old and open up to the announcement of Life.
The announcement is clear, Jesus has entered into Life,
but now he possesses an incorruptible life, life
immortal, eternal life. And this Good News is entrusted by God to the closest core of the
community, for them to expand the seed that Jesus has already planted, so that
go and announce that 'he has risen from the dead and will go ahead' of each one to
to mark the way to the Father, to guide us on the path to eternal Life. Christ
the resurrected now lives infusing in us his vital energy. In a hidden but real way,
is driving our lives towards fulfillment.

Intention: We ask for all the young people who are dying given over to vices and to
a life without meaning, so that with Christ they may rise to a new life and commit to
the extension of the Kingdom.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Risen Jesus, teach us to rise to a new life, to a committed life.
with others, that like the women witnesses of your resurrection we may be bearers of good news
news for our brothers and sisters who are sad and afflicted and help us
to engender life in each of our deaths.

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SECOND MYSTERY: The Ascension of the Lord

Motivation: "While he was eating with them, he ordered them: 'Do not leave Jerusalem,'
but wait for the promise of my Father, which you heard from me [...] when the Holy Spirit comes
about you, you will receive a power that will make you my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea
and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." After saying this, he was taken up before their eyes,
and a cloud hid it from their eyes. While they were staring at the sky, watching
As they were going, suddenly two men dressed in white stood before them and said to them:
"Galileans, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from among you...
carried to heaven, will return just as you have seen him go." (Acts 1:4-11)
Intent: Lord, help us to be witnesses of your resurrection and proclaimers of the Good News.
News for all our brothers who live without hope.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria
Lord, teach us to keep our hope in You, that we do not falter before
our problems and difficulties but let us place our eyes and heart on hope
that you are resurrected and stay with each of us.

THIRD MYSTERY: The Coming of the Holy Spirit

Motivation: The coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost was not an isolated event.
In the book of Acts of the Apostles, we hear about the Spirit on different occasions and
from the action by which guides, directs, and encourages the life and works of the primitive community
The Spirit is the one who inspires, who confirms, who sends. In a word, his
presence and his actions dominate everything. Jesus himself had prepared the apostles to
the mission, to stay together and in prayer was the way to prepare the heart to welcome
the gift of the Spirit: "In the early hours of Pentecost, the Apostles gathered in
prayer with Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Upper Room, waiting for this event
promised" (Cf. Acts 1:14).
Intention: Holy Spirit, assist us in our lives, that like Mary, we may be docile and
open to the action of your Spirit in each one of us. May our youth find
in you the strength to emerge from themselves and become disciples of the resurrected master, that
do not be afraid to give your life to one who will return one hundred percent in this life (no
without persecutions) and then eternal life.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria

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Prayer: Mary, teach us the way to be born of the Holy Spirit. You who kept
all the events in your heart help us understand the mysteries of your Son and to
to be his disciples. That we may be able to discover his presence every day in our
brothers and in the events of our daily life

FOURTH MYSTERY: The Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven.

Motivation: María was a young poor, simple, and humble girl; she belonged to the group of the
the anawim, but despite all this humility and poverty, Mary is elevated, magnified she is one
of those holy women who were able to understand the greatness of God and His intervention
in human history. Mary teaches us that love is a complete, tender, and strong donation,
silent and eloquent, that despite living a life that goes completely unnoticed by the
Human eyes, for God, are a life that shines with the light that only springs from having Jesus.
inside.
Mary is the path that leads us to Jesus and cares for us with love from heaven, and with her
Asunción reinforces our hope in eternal life. The Prophet Isaiah makes an announcement to the
city of Jerusalem. Mary is that city that will rise shining by the light that leaves the
be the temple of Jesus.

Intention: We pray for the students of the Major seminaries, Our Lady of
Suyapa, Christ high priest, and the minor seminaries, Saint Paul VI, Saint James the Apostle and
the pre-vocational house San Juan Maria Vianey, as well as those of the formation houses
religious, so that like Mary they may listen to the voice of Jesus and respond generously to
call that Jesus makes to them.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord Jesus, may we, like Mary your mother, be able to bear witness to you in
the world. Mary, you who have shared the joy of new life in Christ your Son, help
to help young people find the fullness of life they seek and to guide them in the demands of their
call.

FIFTH MYSTERY: The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin

Motivation: Maria is a character in the Bible who does not have much prominence, because
its presence is silent, but above all it accompanies; we can distinguish several aspects
important for what little we know about her in the Sacred Scriptures.

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Mary is the obedient woman who, with her 'Let it be done to me,' gives flesh to the Word of God, she is the
woman who having God within, steps outside herself and puts herself at the service of others, is the
who knows how toask her son with love, for the needs of the poorest, is the woman who
knows how to be at the foot of the cross always accepting the will of the Father, is the one who knows how to wait
against all hope when no one had the strength to believe anymore. According to the Church's doctrine,
Mary is the woman who is taken up to heaven and is crowned as Queen of all creation and it is there
where the entire life of dedication of the Virgin culminates. Therefore, Mary is the woman who knows
reflect the grace of God to all humanity.

Intention: We pray for all Christians so that each one finds and responds to their
vocation and just as Mary said: "Let it be done to me according to your will" and assume the
consequences of this call.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory

Sentence: Throughout her life, María reflects with her purity a loving gaze.
merciful God, is raised to heaven and crowned, radiant, is placed on high
as a model of delivery to God, as an ideal of holiness and as a way to reach the Father,
through the Son, in the Holy Spirit

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Luminous Mysteries
(Thursday)

Let's delve in with Mary and appreciate the light that

They release key moments in the life of their Son:
moments of special anointing, situations in which
that the Lord reveals Himself, transfigures Himself and
show, announce what it means to follow him for
ending by giving an example, breaking apart and
sharing forever between us.

FIRST MYSTERY: The baptism of Jesus in the

Jordan

Motivation: Humble Jesus, in the line of the

fishermen, feel the weight of humanity
separated from God who has played with his love.
God never felt closer to men,
"more soaked" through this world. Jesus feels
humanity of yesterday, today and always. It
fully embodies to immerse that
humanity, drown it in the waters, so that with Him it is able to stand up again, to be
rescued, liberated, and living in the fullness of the love that Jesus has come to offer to the world.
Jesus, with his Baptism, inaugurates the Kingdom of God and takes on the conversion of the heart of
man.
Intention: We pray for all the vocationally restless youth, so that the Lord may guide them.
baptized with his spirit and they be generous in giving their lives to the service of God.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Sentence: Teach us, Lord Jesus, the way of humility as the only valid path for
to approach the man and woman of today, Lord, make us discover that you also anoint us,
you choose us, you love us, you fill us with the wisdom of your Spirit and strengthen us to face
the adversities of life.

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SECOND MYSTERY: The manifestation of Jesus at the wedding of Cana.

Motivation: The first miracle of Jesus was performed in the context of a celebration, 'they were celebrating
a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and Jesus was there with his mother, and it happened that they began to run out
the wine. The first to realize the scarcity of wine was María, because María is
attentive to the needs of others, and gets involved in the search for the solution to
problem, for knowing who to turn to, to your son Jesus.

Intention: We ask for our youth, that they may recognize in you, Jesus, the friend who...
invite to the party of life, of service, and to drink the wine of his blood.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord, that when wine runs short in our lives, our prayer may rise with confidence.
To you. May the Virgin Mary grant her gaze to all who lack the wine of love, faith, and
hope and teach us to trust in your son Jesus.

THIRD MYSTERY: The announcement of the Kingdom of God, inviting to conversion

Motivation: Jesus in his life spoke to us from heart to heart announcing the Kingdom of
God invited us to a conversion that makes us shape our heart to be like His.
This call, although it is personal, is made to all of us without exception. He brings us His Kingdom, but
to be able to receive it in its deepest dimension, in its entirety, our heart
it must resemble and be close to yours.

Intention: May our youth, Lord, discover the values of your Kingdom, prepare their
hearts to change, to conversion, and to embrace the novelty that full life in Jesus gives them.
contributes.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord, grant us light to discover that treasure, that pearl that You offer us that gives
meaning to our existence, that by looking at our Mother, we place our
hopes, our securities, our longings in You and not in all those things that
they pass and end.

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FOURTH MYSTERY: The transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor.

Motivation: The transfiguration of Jesus is closely linked to the way of the cross, it is a
a word of encouragement to face what is to come. The center of this Gospel story is the
revelation of Jesus as the only voice of God that we must listen to. But in the midst of the
night this voice sometimes terrifies and fills with turmoil, as happened to Peter, James, and
Juan. It is not the presence of Moses and Elijah that reveals Jesus as the Messiah, but the
testimony of the Father: "This is my beloved Son, listen to him."

Intention: We ask the Lord Jesus to help us climb the mountain, glimpsing the cross of
Jerusalem, keeping in the heart the revelation of a God-Son who suffers like us,
but let us trust in the voice of the Father, let us trust in you, as our only wealth.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Gloria
Lord Jesus, grant us the gift of living trustingly in the hands of the Father and living with
a heart willing to reserve no glory for ourselves, assuming the
risk of suffering by adhering it to Yours, so that our being and doing may be transparency
of the Kingdom of God for our brothers.

FIFTH MYSTERY: The Institution of the Eucharist

Motivation: Jesus took the bread and broke it; in the same way, He also wore out His life serving.
to others, sharing among those who needed its light, its truth. Then, he shared it
among the Twelve and said to them: 'Take, eat. This is my body' leaving a clear sign of what
what it was and, therefore, what the life of one who walks in their footsteps must be: to part and to share
the bread, to be broken and shared among the men and women of humanity. The Eucharist, for
So, it is a summary, explanation, and perpetuation of all his life.
Intention: That our young people may feed on your body and your blood in the Eucharist,
that they may find in this sacrament the joy of loving you and following you.

❖ Our Father
❖ 10 Hail Marys
❖ Glory
Lord Jesus, may you always be our daily bread. Thank you for being the bread of life.
and of love that satisfies us and gives meaning to our steps. May your Body and your Blood fill us.
of strength and hope to be your disciples.

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SENTENCE
TO ASK FOR THE DIFFERENT VOCATIONS

Oh, Jesus, eternal Shepherd of souls, deign to

look with eyes of mercy at this portion
of your beloved grey.

Lord, we groan in orphanhood, give us

vocations, give us holy families, priests,
religious, religious women, and laypeople.

We ask you through the Immaculate Virgin Mary, your

sweet and Holy Mother.
Oh Jesus, give us holy families, priests and
religious, religious women and lay people according to

your heart.

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