Blessed Stanley Rother, our brother,
you poured out your life in service
and spilled your blood as a witness
to the faithfulness of God's love.
Those you loved so deeply and served so completely knew you to be their pastor and their priest, interceding for them as their open door to the presence of Christ.
Pray for us now and intercede on our behalf,
as we ask you to walk with us on our journey through life, that the redeeming presence of Jesus might touch us now and restore us to wholeness and peace.
I ask in time of need [state your need] that your prayer accompany us; may the mercy of Christ, echoed in your ministry and your martyrdom, renew us and bring us the graces necessary to heal our brokenness, illumine our darkness, and restore the losses in our lives, that we may be, finally, one with you in praising God forever in heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Bl. Stanley Rother was born to Gertrude Smith Rother and Franz Rother on Mar. 27, 1935 in Okarche, OK. He was ordained a priest on May 25, 1963, and martryed where he ministered in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, on July 28, 1981. He was beatified in Oklahoma City on Sept. 23, 2017, and his feast day is July 28. To learn more about Bl. Stanley Rother and the plans for a shrine in his honor, visit http://stanleyrother.org/.