O Holy Apostle,
you are the Rock upon which Almighty God has built His Church.
Obtain for us we pray you: lively faith, firm hope, and burning love, complete detachment from ourselves, contempt of the world, patience in adversity, humility in prosperity, recollection in prayer, purity of heart, a right intention in all our works, diligence in fulfilling the duties of our state of life, constancy in our resolutions, resignation to the will of God and perseverance in the grace of God even unto death; that so, by means of your intercession and your glorious merits, we may be made worthy to appear before the Chief and Eternal Shepherd of Souls, Jesus Christ,
Who with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever.
Amen.