What's Happening in Our Parish
In 2025, Florida will break its record for the number of executions carried out in a single year.![]()
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Please join Bishop Gregory Parkes August 6-14, 2025 in praying a novena for an end to Florida's death penalty. We will pray from August 6-14, 2025, concluding on the Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was executed in an Auschwitz prison camp in 1941. ![]()
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Prayer 🙏🏼![]()
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Merciful Father, we ask your blessing on all we do to build a culture of life.![]()
Hear our prayers for those impacted by the death penalty.![]()
We pray for all people,![]()
that their lives and dignity as children of a loving God may be respected and protected in![]()
all stages and circumstances.![]()
We pray for victims of violence and their families,![]()
that they may experience our love and support and find comfort in your compassion and![]()
in the promise of eternal life.![]()
We pray for those on death row,![]()
that their lives may be spared, that the innocent may be freed and that the guilty may![]()
come to acknowledge their faults and seek reconciliation with you.![]()
We pray for the families of those who are facing execution,![]()
that they may be comforted by your love and compassion.![]()
We pray for civic leaders,![]()
that they may commit themselves to respecting every human life and ending the use of![]()
the death penalty in our land.![]()
Compassionate Father, give us wisdom and hearts filled with your love.![]()
Guide us as we work to end the use of the death penalty and to build a society that truly![]()
chooses life in all situations.![]()
We ask this, Father, through your Son Jesus Christ who lives and reigns![]()
with the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.![]()
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#CourageouslyLiving #DOSP #CalltoConversion #Prayer #Novena
