PRAYER TO SAINT HANNIBAL
O Saint Hannibal, full of heavenly love,
during your life here on earth,
you lived faithfully according to the
interests of the Heart of Jesus.
You followed His Divine Command
to pray for holy vocations to His Church,
and dedicated your life
for the poor and the little ones.
Intercede for us that we may be blessed
with an abundance of priestly, religious,
and lay vocations in the Church.
Inflame our hearts with your love
that we may become holy
and edifying modern day disciples of Christ.
I pray to you to obtain for me from God
the necessary grace, which I ardently desire...
(Mention here your petitions)
Bless me, 0 Saint Hannibal, and my family
that we may all live together
in unity, peace, and love.
Grant, through your intercession,
the graces of which your devotees
are in great need. May all be for God's glory
and the greater good of our souls.
Amen.
Saint Hannibal's Prayer
Invocation to Obtain Holy Priests
0 Jesus, to the people of the countryside and in the remote villages –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, in the populous metropolis –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, in the regions of the unbelievers –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, for the salvation of sinners –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, for the safety of endangered innocence –
send holy priests.
O Jesus, for the reformation of the delinquent youth –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, for the safety of the endangered virginity –
send holy priests.
O Jesus, to comfort the afflicted and help the sick –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, for the destruction of the kingdom of Satan and the building up of your kingdom –
send holy priests.
0 Jesus, for the sanctification of every soul –
send holy priests.
O Jesus, without much delay –
send holy priests.
O Mary, Mother of Vocations, pray for us and obtain for us numerous and holy priests.
Amen.
Litany of Saint Hannibal
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, our Celestial Father, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.
We thank you, 0 Lord and we praise You for the
gift of the person and holiness of St. Hannibal
given to us and to the Church.
Saint Hannibal, who answered “yes” like Mary to your calling,
which was “unexpected, irresistible” and most sure, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your living faith, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your form hope, pray for us
Saint Hannibal, through your ardent charity, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your strong trust in God, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your Eucharistic life and sanctity, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your understanding and zeal for the Rogate, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your tender and filial love for Mary, pray for us.
We thank you, Lord for having given the
Rogate to St. Hannibal as a gift from Christ
through your Spirit.
Saint Hannibal, through your docility in listening and through your capacity of opening yourself to the Word of God, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your singular sensibility towards the necessity of prayer for priests, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your joyful and most faithful obedience to the Rogate of Christ, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your zeal in founding the Rogationists and Daughters of the Divine Zeal for an undying obedience to the Rogate in the Church, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your pastoral charity, which has made you evangelizer and collaborator in the redemption of the Harvest of the Lord, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your capacity to look with the eyes of Christ upon on the most profound needs of all, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your very tender “compassion,” which has made you the apostle of the Rogate and Father of the orphans and the poor, pray for us.
We thank you, Lord for having enriched
St. Hannibal with the gifts of
fidelity and love for the Church.
Saint Hannibal, through your unconditional love for the holy Church, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your love and obedience without reserve towards the Pope and the Bishops who are in communion with him, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your exemplary docility and love towards the Ordinary of the local Church, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your zeal in guarding and defending the Catholic doctrines, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your dedication for the spiritual renewal of many religious institutes entrusted to your zeal and wisdom, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your zeal and charity in helping many contemplative monasteries, pray for us.
We thank you, 0 Lord for arousing in the life
of St. Hannibal a singular life of piety.
Saint Hannibal, through your love for the Sacramental Jesus, the center of our life, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through the gift of the Eucharistic Feast of July the First, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through the gift of your faith in the Most Holy Name of Jesus, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your gift of love to the child Jesus, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your love and sharing in the Passion of Lord Jesus Christ, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your gift of love to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our divine Superiors, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your gift of love to the most holy Virgin Immaculate, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through your gift of love to the holy child, Mary, pray for us.
Saint Hannibal, through the dedication of your two Congregations to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the most Holy Virgin Immaculate, our Divine Founders, pray for us.
Pray for us, Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia...
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray...
Eternal Shepherd, in your loving plan, you chose Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia and made him an outstanding Apostle of Prayer for Vocations and a true Father of the orphans and the poor. Through his merits and intercession send many and holy workers of the Gospel into your harvest. May we be set aflame by the same fire of love to follow his teaching and example.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.