The prayer of the new blessed Moisés Lira to the Virgin of Guadalupe for the priesthood

This September 14, the Mexican blessed Moisés Lira Serafín, who founded the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity of Mary Immaculate. That is why we share with you a brief prayer that he wrote to the Virgin of Guadalupe for the priesthood.

On the website moisesliraserafin.comwhich promotes devotion to the new blessed, details features of the life of Father Moisés, who was born in Zacatlán, Puebla, on September 16, 1893. In his youth he met the venerable P. Félix de Jesús Rougierfounder of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit.

Moisés was the first to enter this congregation and to profess as a religious of the nascent community. He was ordained a priest on May 14, 1922 and later studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

He had a strong vocational crisis and clung to the will of God. Later, he founded the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity of Mary Immaculate in Mexico and died with a reputation for holiness in 1950. He is called the apostle of goodness.

The miracle attributed to him for his beatification is the miraculous healing of a baby in his mother’s womb and that is why there are those who want him to be declared protector of pregnant women.

Los Missionaries of the Holy Spiritin a documented digital biography about the blessedindicate that the day after being ordained a priest, Father Moisés celebrated his first Mass. On that day he wrote in her spiritual diary a brief plea to the Virgin of Guadalupe entrusting her with her priesthood and asking her to accompany him up to the altar.

Apparently the Mother of God heard him and today he has been elevated to the altars as a blessed. Below is the profound prayer to the Mother of God that can be prayed by all priests.

“Oh Mary, my Mother of Guadalupe, rejoice! You now have another priest son, who will never go up to the altar without you. In your hands I entrust and put my priestly life, Mother, help me.” Amen.