Choose a Prayer:

O Good Shepherd, you never cease to
seek out the lost, to call home the stray,
to comfort the frightened, and to bind up
the wounded. I ask you to bring (names)
back to the practice of the Catholic faith,
and to remove all obstacles that prevent
them from receiving your abundant mercy,
which flows sacramentally through
the heart of your holy Church.

Through the intercession of Mary,
the Mother of God, their guardian angels,
their patron saints and the ever-prayerful
Saint Monica, may you pardon their sins
and unshackle them from whatever
hinders their freedom to come home.
For you, O Good Shepherd, have loved us
to the end and offered yourself to the
Father for the salvation of all.

Amen.

Prayers for the return of a non-practicing Catholic
also should be accompanied by sacrificial and
private acts of fasting, and almsgiving in their name.

* Send your prayerful intentions to be remembered at Our Lady’s Shrine.

— Used with permission from the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan