Our Lady’s Intercessory Prayer Team Ministry
Please let us pray for you and your intentions!
About us:
Our parish of St. Michael has an intercessory prayer group to pray for the needs of our parish family, friends, and loved one, and also offer God due praise and thanksgiving for His goodness and for answered prayers. Our formal name is “Our Lady’s Intercessory Prayer Group”, because the Blessed Mother is our patron, but you may hear us informally called “St. Michael’s Intercessory Prayer Group”, after our parish patron. We answer to both names!
Our ministry began in 2015, at the request of Sister Carolyn Mary Coll, S.M., with the permission of the Pastor.
There are 2 ways to participate in our ministry!
- You can submit prayer requests, anonymously, through our parish website here: Prayer Request
- Or you can join our ministry to pray for the prayer requests we receive.
How it works when you join this prayer ministry to become a prayer warrior for our parish family:
- You will receive an email list of prayer intentions 1-2 times a month from our 3 prayer coordinators (Nancy, Julia, Valerie). In that email, there is also a separate section for “praises” because we love to thank God for the many ways he answers prayer! The email will also suggest a short prayer to pray as a way to spiritually unite everyone in praying for the intentions listed. However, you may also choose to pray for the intentions using your own prayers.
- URGENT prayer requests are usually sent out separately from the usual monthly prayer list.
- Our prayer group is primarily virtual, meaning that everyone receives requests via email, and then prays for the intentions on their own, at their own pace and time.
- However, for those who are able to meet in person, we also come together in the Cry Room at the church each 3rd Wednesday of the month, after evening Mass, to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy together for the various prayer intentions. This is led by Dr. Julia Saluke or Nancy Richards. Feel free to stop by and join us – walk ins are always welcome!
Next Steps, if you would like to join St. Michael’s Intercessory Prayer Team:
We’d LOVE to have you! Just fill out the form below to let us know of your interest, and we’ll contact you in the next few days to help you get started as a St. Michael’s Prayer Warrior with Our Lady’s Intercessory Prayer Team!
For Your Good Meditations, Here is Teaching from the Catechism on Some of the Different Types of Prayer:
Intercessory Prayer: “Intercession – asking on behalf of another – has been characteristic of a heart attuned to God’s mercy.” (CCC #2635)
Prayer of Petition: “Christian petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come, in keeping with the teaching of Christ. There is a hierarchy in these petitions: we pray first for the Kingdom, then for what is necessary to welcome it and cooperate with its coming. This collaboration with the mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit, which is now that of the Church, is the object of the prayer of the apostolic community. It is the prayer of Paul, the apostle par excellence, which reveals to us how the divine solicitude for all the churches ought to inspire Christian prayer. When we share in God’s saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all things in order to redeem all things, is glorified by what we ask the Father in his name. It is with this confidence that St. James and St. Paul exhort us to pray at all times. (CCC #2632-2633)
Prayer of Thanksgiving: “Thanksgiving characterizes the prayer of the Church which, in celebrating the Eucharist, reveals and becomes more fully what she is. Indeed, in the work of salvation, Christ sets creation free from sin and death to consecrate it anew and make it return to the Father, for his glory. The thanksgiving of the members of the Body participates in that of their Head. As in the prayer of petition, every event and need can become an offering of thanksgiving. The letters of St. Paul often begin and end with thanksgiving, and the Lord Jesus is always present in it: “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”; “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” (CCC #2637 -2638)
Prayer of Praise: Praise is the form of prayer which recognizes most immediately that God is God. It lauds God for his own sake and gives him glory, quite beyond what he does, but simply because HE IS…Praise embraces the other forms of prayer and carries them toward him who is its source and goal: the “one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist.” (CCC #2639)
