Prayer for the 2011 Year of the Youth

Prayer of the Youth on the occasion of the CBCP Year of the Youth
Almighty Father, God of life and love,
Through the time and ages, you love us.
You trust and chose us
to participate in your saving work.

Bless us, your young people, with your grace.
Give us the gift of living life to the full
by encountering Your Son in a personal way
and sustaining a relationship with him,
by learning what life truly is from his words and works,
from his filial relationship with you,
and by living in true and fruitful communion
with you and with one another.

Empower us through the Holy Spirit
to stand firm in faith.
May we bring our fellow young people closer to you
so that together, we become agents of change
and builders of a society of justice and solidarity,
love and peace.

Enable all of us: your young people,
together with those ministering to us
in the Church, in families and in society,
to make a decisive response to our universal vocation:
to live fully and fruitfully by doing everything in love
as we follow Jesus Christ along the path
of genuine trust in you.

In communion with the rest of the Church,
We pray that this CBCP Year of the Youth
become a kairos time
for the youth ministry of the Church
and a new springtime for us, Filipino youth:
a special period of growing in your grace
through our living in youthful holiness
and through our effort to reach out as a Church
to those waiting for your love

Together with our Blessed Mother,
our model in giving oneself entirely to your will,
we lift this prayer to you in Jesus Christ, your Son,
our friend, Brother and Lord,
in the power of the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.