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PRAYER FOR PRIVATE DEVOTION

O merciful Father
who never leaves Your children alone in the journey of life,
we thank You for having given
to the people of believers and to the whole world
Paul Takashi Nagai and his bride Marina Midori.
Midori, after having led her spouse to encounter You,
in the humble dedication to her vocation
showed him the way of perfect charity.
Together, in trusting abandonment to Your will
they have given a face to the good that Your Providence
knows how to draw even from evil and have become
a proclamation of hope and a witness of charity
for the wounded people.
After the death of his bride
walking in deep poverty of spirit,
in the atomic desert Takashi experienced
the tenderness of Your friendship and,
witness of grace and of the hundredfold,
he regenerated in his people the taste for life
and the courage to rebuild.
Grant to all of us
through the intercession of Your spouses,
the grace to respond to our personal
call to holiness
and grant us, if it is for Your Greater Glory,
the grace we implore (...)
in the hope that these spouses may soon be included
among Your saints.
Through Christ Our Lord.

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