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

| 09/5/2025

By: Our Sunday Visitor

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

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience on September 3, 2025.
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience on September 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

(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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