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Prayer of Catholics United for the Faith

O God our Father, who sent Your only-begotten Son to suffer and to give His life for the life of His Church, rule, protect, and nourish her continually, we beseech You.

Teach us of Catholics United for the Faith to direct our zeal first of all to the renewal of our own hearts.

Then, if it be Your holy will to allow us to be in any way your instruments in the wider renewal of Your Church, give us the grace to know what services, small or great, You ask of us, and let the Holy Spirit teach us to perform them in obedience, patience, and charity, leaving entirely to You what fruits they may bear.

We ask this through the same Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of that Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

—H. Lyman Stebbins
Founder, Catholics United for the Faith

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From Our Founder

When we see the failings of many around us, do we use those failings of others as a pretext for failings of our own: for discouragement (which is in itself a defect of faith) or for anger (which puts us in danger of hell fire)? Or does the sight of them drive us deeper into the arms of Christ, into deeper contrition, into a deeper awareness of our own need of mercy, a deeper faith, and more loving service of the truth?

H. Lyman Stebbins
1983