Awake and Pray is not a movement, an association, a program, a strategic plan, or an institutional renewal initiative. It is a call to console the Heart of Jesus with a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; to repent for our unfaithfulness as a church and a nation; to stand in the gap between the Lord and those who have abandoned him or chosen to ignore him, and intercede on their behalf; and to offer ourselves as a remnant people to be used as he wishes in this spiritual battle. There is no proscribed mission for Awake and Pray; only to be faithful to the way the Holy Spirit is uniquely working in each one’s life to fulfill the lay vocation.
Most Holy Trinity, during this Lenten Season we desire to know you more clearly, love you more fully, and serve you more readily. Stir up in our hearts a hunger for a deeper personal relationship with You – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Mother Mary we ask your intercession in the spiritual battle for souls that Satan’s strategy would be thwarted, so that the truth about the power of prayer would be proclaimed and embraced, and many more lay men and women would AWAKE & PRAY to join the people of the remnant. Amen.
