Conclave: spiritually accompanies a cardinal voter with your prayer

A few days after the start of the conclave, which the Vatican has announced for next Wednesday, May 7, Catholics join spiritually the cardinals through four digital initiatives that invite the faithful of the whole world to pray for the choice of the new Pope.

These proposals, driven by means, movements and prayer platforms, seek to participate to the people of God at this key moment for the Church, through intercession and constant prayer.

EWTN: Choose your cardinal per photo

The Ewtn Catholic chain, a company to which ACI Press belongs, has published on its social networks A gallery with images of the 135 voters cardinals, with the aim of making them known. Although only they have the right to vote to choose the new Pope, Ewtn recalls that “the Church – which we are all Catholics – also participates in the conclave through prayer.”

Ewtn points out that it is the ideal time to “unite and ask the Holy Spirit for our shepherds and for the new Pope. He begins to pray for all of them; that is our way of participating in the conclave.”

Finally, they invite the faithful to choose three cardinals and “dedicate your prayers especially for them, with name and surname.”

Spiritual adoption of a cardinal

Monastery Wi-Fia virtual prayer community, has launched the platform “Adopt a cardinal”, An initiative that invites the faithful to receive, randomly, the name of a cardinal voter through their website.

The objective is to compromise Catholics to pray “daily to the Holy Spirit, from today until the day of the election of the new Pope, for each of the cardinals, awaiting the new successor of Peter.”

So far, about 10,000 people have already joined this proposal.

The platform suggests the following sentence to accompany during these days the cardinal who has been assigned to you:

Come, oh creative spirit, visit our minds, full of your grace the hearts you have created.

Oh sweet comfort, Don of the very high father, living water, fire, love, holy oil of the soul.

Finger of God, promised by El Salvador, radiates your seven gifts, raises the word in us.

I know light for understanding, calling the heart; Heals our wounds with the balm of your love.

Defend us of the enemy, give us the gift of peace, that your invincible guide preserves us from evil.

Light of eternal wisdom, revive us the great mystery of God the Father and the United Son in a single love. Amen.

Pray.

Oh Father, what guides and custodians to your church, grant the cardinal parents the spirit of intelligence, of truth, of peace, so that they strive to know your will and serve you with total delivery. For Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Hakuna: “Your date, your fire”

The Catholic Movement Hakuna has launched a prayer campaign within the framework of the next conclave, inviting the faithful to “accompany spiritually” to each cardinal voter.

The initiative is entitled “Your date, your fire”, since the cardinal for whom it will be prayed is assigned depending on the birthday of each participant.

As described by website of the movement, this initiative seeks to unite Catholics in “this important moment for the Church. That each can accompany with their prayer a cardinal voter.”

The objective, he says, is that “the Holy Spirit illuminates them, that the purity of the heart and wisdom assist them when voting who is to be the new shepherd of the Church.”

Hakuna recalled that “it does not matter to pray for them or not to pray”, underlining the importance of this form of spiritual accompaniment.

This is the prayer that Hakuna suggests to accompany the assigned cardinal:

Good father, thank you.

Thanks for Pope Francis,

for his cheerful and worn out without reservations,

for your heart restless for the discarded

and his example of mercy.

Now open it.

God son, who thought of Pedro

When you imagined your church,

Give us a new pope to speak to you without fear,

to show those facets of your face

of which the world is thirsty and still does not know.

Holy Spirit,

Water us on this wait.

Prepare our church now

For the coming Pope,

Make us good land for the new,

that we welcome him with joy,

With humility and trust without calculations.

You will know how to guide us.

I ask you for light for cardinal ___, that you grant you

Your clarity and inner freedom

To choose according to your will.

To you, God alive,

We tell you yes.

Global Rosary with Hozana

The Hozana Prayer application has launched A large world rosary chain. Through their free app, any user can join a “living rosary” using the Conclave2025 code.

Each participant undertakes to pray a daily dozen of the Rosary for the cardinals and the conclave. Together, they form a complete rosary in continuous prayer for the choice of the new Pope.

“It is a shocking example of how faith and technology come together: a spiritual communion of believers through the continents, offering their prayers in unity and hope,” they say.