Prayer of St Therese of the Child Jesus for Missionaries

Divine Jesus, hear the prayer I offer you for your Missionaries. Keep them safe amid the dangers of the world. Make them feel increasingly the nothingness and vanity of passing things and the happiness of being able to despise them for your love. May they carry out their sublime apostolate on those around them. May they be apostles worthy of your Sacred Heart.

O Mary! gentle Queen of Carmel, it is to you that I entrust the souls of the Missionaries. Teach them even now how lovingly you handled the Divine Child Jesus and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, so that they may worthily go up to the Holy Altar and carry in their hands the King of Heaven.

I ask you also to keep them safe beneath the shadow of your virginal mantle until the happy day when they leave this valley of tears and can contemplate your splendor and enjoy for all eternity the fruits of their glorious apostolate.

Amen.