PRAY WITH US
We welcome your ideas for community prayer and will continue to add new resources to this page. In your own words or using the resources below, we invite you to lift up the needs of those harmed and pray for atonement for the sins associated with the sexual abuse in our church.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ...
For a new housing situation
For courage to continue to heal.
MAKE A PRAYER REQUEST
You are invited to let the Journey to Bethany community know how we can pray for you. Your information is kept confidential and requests for healing, thanksgiving, help through struggle are published on our prayer page.
A Rosary for Healing & Protection
This Rosary was written to ask for support in the efforts to keep all children are safe from sexual abuse and provide assistance to survivors who are on the path to healing. Praying this Rosary will lift their needs in prayer, offering them to God through Mary who offers her loving protection.
Published by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Child and Youth Protection
The Stations of the Cross in Atonement for Abuse and for the Healing of All
These Stations of the Cross were written to accompany members of the Church in atonement for the sins associated with sexual abuse of our children and with our yearning for healing. It brings lay persons, survivors, and clergy together in a powerful recollection of Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection.
Published by Rev. Paul Turner, Director, Office of Divine Worship, Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph
DOWNLOAD | a booklet form which includes illustrations by Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC, can be ordered from Liturgical Press.
A Prayer for Healing (bilingual)
A Prayer for Healing is prayed throughout the U.S. asking for survivors to be comforted and made whole. It petitions humility, grace and wisdom for all those acting to bring healing and justice.
Published by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Child and Youth Protection