Prayer For the Bishop of Raleigh, North CarolinaOut of charity, please pause right now and pray the following prayer for my bishop, The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, who has been very supportive throughout my illness and my desire to serve Our Lord as a priest. When I met with him after my cancer diagnosis, his reply was "Philip, if God is calling you to be a priest, I am not going to stand in the way!" Please pray for him by name:
If you would like, please log your promise of prayer for His Excellency on the comment page. If you can, please pray daily for Bishop Burbidge by name. He has promised to do so for me ever since we met two years ago to discuss my vocation.
28 comments:
Prayers right now for Bishop Burbidge!
praying!!!
Will keep Bishop Burbidge in prayer, for sure!
Prayer said!
Been praying daily for him since he became our Bishop.....
I pray for my bishop, Bishop Burbidge daily and also our seminarians and priests. We have a prayer site in the diocese at www.cureprayergroup.org that is wonderful. Try it.
Gretchen
done...
Praying. Hope you don't mind me adding my bishop's name in with Bishop Burbridge's--I know he needs that prayer too!
Prayer for Bishop Michael Burbidge
O Jesus, Prince of Pastors,
Shepherd and Bishop of our souls,
give our bishop Michael Burbidge
all those virtues, which he needs for his sanctification!
May he watch over himself and the entire flock,
with which the Holy Spirit has entrusted him!
Fill his heart with Thine own Spirit!
Give him faith, charity, wisdom and strength!
Send him faithful co-laborers in the great work of saving
and guiding souls!
Make him a shepherd after Thine own heart,
living only for his holy office,
fearing nobody but Thee,
and hoping for nothing but Thee,
in order that when Thou shalt come,
to judge shepherds and flocks,
he may obtain the unfading reward of eternal life!
Amen.
Composed by +Bishop Vincent Waters
Bishop of Raleigh
praying!
I promise my prayers daily at Holy Mass for Bishop Burbidge that he will contiue to be a faithful witness to all his flock.
I will pray for the good Bishop and also add him as a prayer intention to my blog.
praying for your bishop!
Have heard very good things regarding Bp. Burbidge, your bishop. May God continue to keep him faithful and may he be most fruitful.
Have heard very good things regarding Bp. Burbidge, your bishop. May God continue to keep him faithful and may he be most fruitful.
It is done!
hi philip...i already do pray for him, our priests & our seminarians every morning. it was a wonderful thing for him to have our seminarians names/photos on a card...very handy as i only know one of them personally. Bishop Burbidge is a wonderful person & we are so blessed to have him in our diocese.
Our daily prayers always include Bishop Burbidge. He has touched our lives personally and has been instrumenatal in vocations in our family.
Bishop Burbidge and you are in our daily prayers!
prayers always!
For His Excellency:
Ave Maria, Gratia Plena
Dominus Tecum
Benedicta Tu in Mulieribus
Et Benedictus, fructus ventris tui Jesus,
Sancta Maria
Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus
nunc et in ora mortis nostrae.
Amen.
Yes, we are so blessed to have him as our Bishop. He is in my prayers. Thank you for this beautiful reminder to pray for our Shepard in Christ.
God Bless you, I just was diganosed with brain cancer, they got it out but I still have a long road ahead.
I just said a prayer for you.
Larry
Philadelphia, PA
Of Course Phillip, we pray twice a day for our fine Bishop and will continue to do so. I just said an extra one at your request (added one for you)
God Bless You Man, you are awesome!
prayers every day now!
I have been praying for Bishop Burbidge ever since he came to the Raleigh Diocese. I moved away from St. Peter's Greenville just a few months before he arrived. But everything I hear and read about him sounds like he is a holy man and that Diocese is blessed to have him. My prayers will continue.
I will pray for Bishop Michael Burbidge.
Thank you for everything and for this suggestion.
I am praying right now for Bishop Burbidge. :)
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