During Pray40, “The Way,” we heard the remarkable story of Takashi Nagai and his wife, Midori Nagai. Their example is a powerful reminder of hope amid suffering and trusting in the will of God amidst devastating circumstances.
On November 9, 2021, the Archbishop of Nagasaki, Msgr Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, granted canonical imprimatur and permission to use and disseminate an official prayer to invoke their intercession and canonization.
Please join us in our efforts to pray for the continuation of the process for the beatification and canonization of Paul Takashi Nagai and Marina Midori Moriyama using the prayer below.
O merciful Father who never leave your children alone on the journey of life, we thank You for giving to all believers and to the whole world Paul Takashi Nagai and his wife Marina Midori.
Midori, after leading her bridegroom to friendship with You, in humble dedication to her vocation, showed him the way of perfect charity.
Together, in trusting abandonment to Your will, they have given their face to the Good that Your Providence knows how to draw even from evil and have become the announcement of hope and testimonials of charity for the wounded people.
After the death of his bride, walking in deep poverty of spirit, Takashi experienced in the atomic desert 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 us all, through the intercession of these spouses, the grace to respond to our personal call to holiness and grant us, if it is to Your greater glory, the grace we are imploring (…) in the hope that these spouses may soon be counted among Your Saints.
Through Christ our Lord.
IMPRIMATUR * Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, Archbishop of Nagasaki The 9th November 2021
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