Morning Prayer for Monastic Orders and Vocations

O Lord Jesus Christ, you became poor for our sake, that we

might be made rich through your poverty: Guide and sanctify,

we pray, those whom you call to follow you under the vows

of poverty, chastity, and obedience, that by their prayer and

service they may enrich your Church, and by their life and

worship may glorify your Name; for you reign with the Father

and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

(BCP 819)