Prayers for Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is now in full swing with multiple storms in the Gulf and Atlantic.

Join us at St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana for a rosary at 6 PM this evening. We will meet at the monument of Lt. Father Verbis Lafleur. Bring a lawn chair for comfort.

We will continue to pray the rosary at 6 PM each Monday during Hurricane Season.

A Prayer for the Hurricane Season
by Maurice Schexnayder, Second Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana

O God, Master of this passing world, hear the humble voices of your children. The sea of Galilee obeyed your order and returned to its former quietude; You are still the Master of land and sea. We live in the shadow of danger over which we have no control; the Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant, can awake from its seeming lethargy, overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land and spread chaos and disaster.

During this hurricane season we turn to You, O loving Father. Spare us from past tragedies whose memories are still so vivid and whose wound seem to refuse to heal with passing time. O Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea, Our Beloved Mother, we ask you to plead with your Son in our behalf, so that spared from the calamities common to this area and animated with a true spirit of gratitude, we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son to reach the heavenly Jerusalem where a stormless eternity awaits us. Amen.