Ever-loving and Gracious God,

We ask you to pour abundantly into the heart of Your servant Pope Leo IV
the tender love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the wisdom and strength of the Holy Spirit.

Guide him to lead Your holy church,
Christ’s Mystical Body, into deeper and deeper unity amidst diversity,
and help him, along with his brother bishops,
to find renewed structures to empower all the baptized
to bring Your healing love into all the broken places of our world.

Sustain him and refresh him daily with abundant joy and peace of heart
as he shoulders the awesome responsibilities of the role You have entrusted to him.
We ask for these blessings and graces through Christ our Risen and Redeeming Lord. Amen.