November 15, 2017
Heavenly Father:
we pray to You for those on the perilous ocean
that You will embrace them with your mighty protection
and grant them success in all their rightful undertakings.
Grant them in all hours of need
to see that they have a God who remembers them,
and grant them grace in the hour of danger
to commit their souls into Your hands.
0 Lord Jesus Christ,
Who can rebuke the storm and bring it to silence,
and lay the roaring waves to rest,
show them who call to You out of the deep
that You hear their prayer and will save them.
And finally bring us all to the only safe port.
Amen.
The Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.