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Brother André,
how well you understood how love for God
is expressed in love for others.

Help us to accept those who are afflicted
in the same way that you did.

Teach us to sympathize
with their suffering and their pain.

Teach us to listen to them with patience
and to speak a consoling word.

Let us show them how to trust
in Saint Joseph, in Mary the mother of Jesus,
and in God our Father.

Your love of God was manifest
in your plan to build a place of prayer on the mountain.

With Saint Joseph,
you yourself receive all those who come to the Oratory.

Plant within them faith in God who loves them so much
and who wishes wholeness for every human being.

Make them grateful for all the graces they have received
and confident in the future that is theirs.

Help them to make prayer a part of their life
and to become people that others can rely on.
Brother André,
you are now with the saints in glory;
you are powerful with God.

Continue the ministry you conducted
when you were on earth.

Obtain healing for those who are suffering
in mind and body.

Give serenity to those advanced in years,
and gainful work for those who seek it.

Inspire the young to live good Christian lives,
in marriage,
in consecrated life,
as ordained pastors.
Teach all of us how to live as Jesus did.

Amen.

© Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal