The Bishops of Louisiana have revised and reissued the pastoral APPROACHING DEATH: The Moral Choices with a Health Care Advanced Directive for Catholics

PRAYER FOR SAFETY
IN HURRICANE SEASONO 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 a 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 wounds seem to refuse to heal with passing of time. O Virgin, 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.
Originally dedicated to the victims
 of Hurricane Audrey in 1957.
Fr. Al Volpe, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Our Lady of Prompt Succor,
Patroness of Louisiana,
hasten to help us!