Unceasing in prayer and helping the faithful!
O Lord,
who for our sake became poor,
that we through your poverty might become rich;
strengthen all those who, at your call and after your example,
have left behind everything
that they might take up the cross
and follow you in the threefold way of poverty,
chastity and obedience.
through the consecration of their lives
and the power of their prayers
may your church be strengthened
to be more perfectly conformed to your image;
for you are alive and reign with the Father and the Spirit, one God,
now and forever. AMEN