Dear Friends,
Hurricane Matthew has already led a path of destruction through the Bahamas and is now making a path for Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. At the same time, Typhoon Chaba is taking it's toll on South Korea.
Our prayers go out for all those in the path of these storms, and particularly for all Seafarers, Fishermen, Cruisers, and others who may be at sea at this time.
In a special way, we ask you to keep in prayer some of our Members and Friends who are in the path. These include:
- Capt. Jerry Pannell - Mariner Representative to the AOS-USA Board
- Fr Tom Boyer - Secretary to the AOS-USA Board
- Fr. Art Schute - Past Cruise Ship Priest Representative to the AOS-USA Board
- Deborah Meador - Holland America/Seabourn
- Fr. Peter Lin - AOS Miami
- Milton Vega & Deacon David Williams - AOS Jacksonville (Saint Augustine)
- Seafarers House - and all our friends there including Lesley Warrick, Nancy Gastaldi, & Ron Perkins
- Linda Givens - Royal Caribbean International
- American Maritime Officers' STAR Center
- Deacon Jack Rhine & Deacon William Wanca - Port Canaveral
May Our Lady Star of the Sea Protect & Guide each of them.
Please join us in prayer:
Prayer to Our Lady Star of the Sea
Courtesy: Confraternity of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Morgan City, LAStar of the Sea, Great Mother of God and Our Mother, you know all dangers of soul and body that threaten seamen.
Protect your sons who sail the seas, and protect also their families that await their return.
Star of the Sea, Mother of the Church, give light and strength to those priests and laymen who bring the love of your Divine Son among seamen.
Fill their hearts with a supernatural and life giving zeal for the apostolate.
Star of the Sea, light shining in the darkness, be a guide to those who sail amid the storms and dangers of life.
Stir up in their midst the hearts of ardent apostles and bring us all to the safety of heaven's port.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on all those who sail the seas.
O, Star of the Sea, help and protect us from the danger of hurricanes and floods and all perils of nature.
-Amen
Prayer to Avert Storms
Father, all the elements of nature obey your command.
Calm the storms that threaten us and turn our fear of your power into praise for your goodness.
Grant this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
-Amen-
For those mariners at sea, we pray this special prayer:
A Seafarers' Prayer
O God, I ask you to take me into your care and protection along with all those who sail ships.
Make me alert and wise in my duties. Make me faithful in the time of routine, and prompt to decide and courageous to act in any time of crisis.
Protect me in the dangers and perils of the sea; and even in the storm, grant that there may be peace and calm within my heart.
When I am far from home and far from loved ones and far from the country that I know,
help me to be quite sure that, wherever I am, I can never drift beyond your love and care.
Take care of my loved ones in the days and weeks and months when I am separated from them, sometimes with half the world between them and me.
Keep me true to them and keep them true to me, and every time that we have to part, bring us together in safety and in loyalty again.
This I ask for your love's sake.
-Amen-
May Our Lady Star of the Sea, and Her Son hold each of them in her care!
Doreen M. Badeaux
Secretary General
