Seafarers Sunday is a day when we pray for those working in the maritime sector.
The prefect of Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ has released a message for those working in this sector and communities that surround them: https://press.vatican.va/…/2024/06/24/0525/01080.html
Below is a Seafarer’s Prayer from Stella Maris NZ (SMNZ) also known as Apostleship of the Sea, which promotes the spiritual welfare of Catholic seafarers and the social welfare of all seafarers irrespective of nationality or belief.
“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.
O 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.”
