Invoke San Gerardo in your life and ask for a grace

1 - Lord, our Father, you have enriched the soul of your servant Gerardo with living faith, which he always and everywhere awakened in others with word and example; grant us, through his intercession, to firmly believe in you and in everything you have revealed to us for our salvation.
Glory to the Father ...

2 - Lord, our Father;

you made your servant Gerard the perfect image of your crucified Son, whom he clothed making himself meek and humble of heart;

allow us to imitate the examples of his life and to transform ourselves into the same image of Christ. Glory to the Father ...

3 - Lord, our Father, you have called your servant Gerard to perfect charity, for which, animated by the Holy Spirit,

he consecrated his life to you in the Congregation of SS. Redeemer and in the humble service of brother coadjutor always promoted your glory; make us available to the voice of the Spirit, because in our jobs we seek and love you with all your heart, with your whole mind, with all your strength.
Glory to the Father ...

4 - Lord, our Father, you wanted your servant Gerard the apostle of charity towards the brothers, and you placed him as a consoler of the afflicted, an angel of comfort; give us availability in understanding the needy, courage in helping the poor, love in welcoming the marginalized, recognizing the face of your Son in everyone. Glory to the Father ...

5 - Lord, our Father,

you have poured into your servant Gerard such a spirit of prayer to make him seraphim of your altar; make the memory of the Easter of your Son alive in us, that we live in the Eucharist, and we walk with the strength of this divine food, until you, who are the real life.
Glory to the Father ...

6 - Lord, our Father, you have made obedience Gerard shine in your servant until the death of your Son Jesus Christ; grant us, your children, to recognize your will in every event and to faithfully love your commandments.
Glory to the Father ...

7 - Lord, our Father, you made your servant Gerard patient in adversity, austere in penance, joyful in tribulations; get us to enhance the pains that life offers us as a happy means of personal sanctification and collaboration with Christ your Son for the salvation of others. Glory to the Father ...

8 - Lord, our Father, you have adorned your servant Gerardo with the purity of the angels of heaven, and you have made him chaste in thoughts, pure in affections, free in actions; it gives us, for its merits, to overcome temptations to sin and to promote the sanctity of morals, so that our body may be a worthy dwelling for the Holy Spirit.
Glory to the Father ...

9 - Lord, our Father, you have tried the virtue of your servant Gerardo since the first years of his life when, without his father, he knew the hardness of poverty, but, confident in your providence, he learned to hope in your love; it gives us the joy of feeling protected by you, and of placing our trust more in the goods of heaven than in those of the earth.
Glory to the Father ...