
Adding to the Pope's Birthday Spiritual Bouquet? Here Are Some Ideas
By: Our Sunday Visitor
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!