Please keep our Spiritual Leaders in your prayers
MOST REVEREND J. MARK SPALDING, J.C.L.
Bishop Spalding was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Louisville on August 3, 1991, by Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, O.P.
His appointment as the 12th Bishop of Nashville by Pope Francis was announced on November 21, 2017. His episcopal ordination and installation as the Bishop of Nashville was on February 2, 2018.
Very Reverend Austin Gilstrap
Episcopal Vicar
Education and Formation
Diocese of Nashville
Rev. Luke Wilgenbusch
Director of Vocations
Diocese of Nashville
Children's Prayer for Vocations
I glorify You, God in all that I do. In mind, body, and spirit I give my best to you.
Help me to follow your will no matter the call: Sister, brother, or priest, I promise my all.
If you call me to marriage, I promise to love, and to teach my own children to seek grace from above.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Prayer for Vocations
Jesus, as you gave yourself to me, I give myself to you.
Please help me to discover my vocation and live it with joy.
Serran Prayer for Vocations
O God, who wills not the death of a sinner, but rather that he be converted and live, grant we beseech You, through the intercession of Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, Saint Joseph, her spouse, Saint Junipero Serra, and all the saints, an increase of laborers for your Church, fellow laborers with Christ, to spend and consume themselves for souls, through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever, Amen.
Prayer for the Perseverance of Vocations
O God, You have constituted Your only-begotten Son supreme and eternal Priest for the glory of Your majesty and the salvation of mankind; grant that those whom He has chosen ministers and dispensers of His mysteries may be found faithful in fulfilling the ministry they have received.
Prayer to Saint Michael
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host - by the Power of God - cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
- Pope Leo XIII
A Prayer for Priestly Vocations
God our Father, please send us holy priests, all for the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
all for the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
in union with St. Joseph.
Amen.