Adding to the Pope's Birthday Spiritual Bouquet? Here Are Some Ideas

Adding to the Pope's Birthday Spiritual Bouquet? Here Are Some Ideas

Pope Leo XIV
| 09/5/2025

Prayer ideas for home, parish, and school to honor the Pope Leo XIV's 70th birthday

(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV's 70th birthday is September 14, and OSV News and many partners are gathering a spiritual bouquet of prayer for him; here are a few ideas for how to pray at home, at school, and in your parish.

Be sure to add your prayers to the Pope's birthday spiritual bouquet , we will be sending him a card with the prayers and names of those who participate! And tag us on social media @OSVNews so we can share your example of prayer with others.

At Home

Pray a rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, or other prayer

Pray the Liturgy of the Hours with Sing the Hours

Pray a novena for the Pope (a Holy Cross novena starts September 6 with PrayMoreNovenas.com)

Pray the Rosary with Relevant Radio every night at 7 p.m. CT

At the Parish

Have a Mass or Holy Hour for the Pope

Pray a prayer or Rosary before or after Mass together (especially on his Sunday birthday!)

Invite your parish groups to say a prayer at a gathering or event

Pray a "living Rosary" where each person takes a turn in saying a prayer of the Rosary

Pray the Liturgy of the Hours as a community

At School

Pray for the Pope at an all-school Rosary or Mass

Incorporate a prayer on pizza day in the school cafeteria

Have children pray and create "beads" out of construction paper or balloons for a collectively created Rosary to hang in a school common area

Set up a bulletin board with paper flowers and pens so children can write prayers and pin them to the board

Color coloring sheets of the mysteries of the rosary while praying a decade for the pope

Don't forget to register your prayers. We want to be able to present Pope Leo with an overwhelming show of prayer!

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