A Prayer for the Coffee Growers

A Prayer for the Coffee Growers

Heavenly Father, Thank you for coffee and thank you for the coffee growers,

Lord, Bless the coffee and bless the coffee growers,

St. Isidore the Farmer, pray for good harvests for the coffee farms,

St. Thomas More, pray for ethical conduct in all coffee-related operations,

St. Barbara, pray for the workplace safety of the coffee growers,

St. Anthony Mary Claret, pray for fair working hours for the coffee growers,

St. Joseph the Worker, pray for just wages for the coffee growers,

St. Homobonus, pray for the businesses who work with the coffee growers,

St. Christopher, pray for the transporters who work with the coffee growers,

Lord, bless us all who enjoy the fruits of the labors of the coffee growers,

Amen. 

The development of economic activity and growth in production are meant to provide for the needs of human beings. Economic life is not meant solely to multiply goods produced and increase profit or power; it is ordered first of all to the service of persons, of the whole man, and of the entire human community… (Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 2426)

Resources

Catechism of the Catholic Church, IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice

Rerum Novarum, Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII on Capital and Labor

Laborem Exercens, Encyclical of Pope John Paul II

Fair Trade Foundation

Originally published at Seeking the Mercy in the Mundane on Substack.