Prayer Power History

Thank you for visiting Prayer Power. Our dream is to sit down together, have a cup of coffee and share our wonderful stories about our Eucharistic blessings. We’re working on our blogger so you can come to Prayer Power and tell us your story and thoughts or read others stories and thoughts, especially inspiring stories about priests, Our Lord in the Eucharist and family.

Our main mission is praying before the Blessed Sacrament for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life. We began in 1983. We pray for three special intentions, first, that Christ will be the center of the family, second, that we have an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life and third that we have holy priests and religious.

We also ask each prayer member to pray for their parish priests and a special priest every night at dinner. We assign every one a priest to pray for from the archdiocese both order and secular priests. The priests in the archdiocese of Philadelphia have at least four people praying just for them every night at dinner and during their holy hour.

We send a quarterly newsletter out to all our members. If you would like to receive the newsletter please go to newsletter section. Give us your first name and email address and we’ll email it to you or give us your full name and address and we’ll mail it.

We also have a prayer line. If you would like us to pray for your intentions please go to our prayer line. We have many wonderful people who receive prayer requests daily via email. They will be glad to add your intentions to their prayer list. We also have twenty other prayer lines who add Prayer Power requests to their prayers.

What are your concerns? Are you concerned about your children, the church, and the world? Back in the seventies my two main concerns were about the decline in the family and my children. I had a few teenage sons who were challenging to say the least. I had a very soggy pillow for about eight years. Many a night I cried myself to sleep worrying over my sons; however, I had the good fortune of living a block from St. Charles Seminary.

I visited the chapel everyday. I would sit and talk everything over with Our Lord. I’d tell him about the boys. I’d ask Him what I should do. I always heard an inner voice telling me not to be afraid. “I am with you. Just give the boys to me.” Prayer is like exercise the more we do it the stronger our faith grows. I grew more and more confident that Our Lord was taking care of our sons even if I couldn’t see it at the time. And He was.

Our six sons are outstanding men today. I call them my sons of the Eucharist. What would you expect Sons of the Holy Eucharist to be like? Caring and considerate husbands, loving and responsible fathers, charitable men, hard workers, generous to the church and the down trodden and of course good to their parents. And they are.

I went to St. Charles to pray for my family but I soon added the priests and seminarians to my list. When I first began visiting the chapel at St. Charles there were many seminarians. Forty seven men were ordained in 1972; however, the number of seminarians began declining. Each year I noticed there were fewer seminarians. I talked this over with Our Lord. An idea began to take shape in my head. Why not invite the lay people to come to St. Charles to pray for vocations. At first I liked the idea then my fears took over. It’s a silly idea. No one will come to St. Charles to pray. Who would listen to me? If it was God’s will the priests would have thought of it. But in spite of my doubts and fears the idea just wouldn’t go away. I tried to shake it but I couldn’t. Finally I got the courage to ask Cardinal Krol for permission to start a lay Eucharistic Prayer movement for vocations and Christ centered families at St. Charles Seminary.

In January 1983, we had our first Prayer Power Adoration at St. Charles. We had Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 12:30 pm until 9 pm in the evening every Tuesday. 120 lay people signed up to make a holy hour a month at St. Charles. We’ve been praying there every Tuesday from September until May since 1983.

I also was blessed to be able to help sixty parishes in our diocese start weekly adoration. We grew our membership to over 6000 people. Many of our original 6000 are beginning to die. Just this past spring ten Prayer Power supporters died. If you are not a Prayer Power member and would like to be part of our movement call 610-962-0951 or click on Membership.

We hope you’ll visit us often. We are in the process of preparing some gifts to offer you for visiting our sight. Look at what’s coming to find out what we are working on to making our Prayer Power site a special place for relaxation, renewal and rebound.