Prayer For Blessing of the Seeds and Soil

(A procession of children or adults, for example officers of parish organizations, singing hymns and carrying seeds and soil in small decorated baskets to be placed at the Communion railing for blessing. The farm and city people might bring seeds and soil (soil from lawns, gardens and fields, seeds for garden and fields) and as they come to church, place same in containers at the front of the church.)

(After the procession)

P. And other seeds fell upon good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.

PSALM 64: 10-1

All: You have visited the land and watered it; 
greatly have you enriched it.

God's watercourses are filled;
you have prepared the grain.

Thus have you prepared the land,
drenching its furrows,
breaking up its clods.

Softening it with showers,
blessing its yield.

You have crowned the year with your bounty,
and your paths overflow with a rich harvest;

The untilled meadows overflow with it,
and rejoicing clothes the hills.

The fields are garmented with flocks,
and the valleys blanketed with grain.
They shout and sing with joy.

V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be /world without end. 

Amen.

V. And other seeds fell upon good ground, and yielded fruit,
some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.
 

HYMN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
And in our hearts take up Thy rest.
Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid
To fill the hearts which Thou hast made,
To fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

PRAYERS FOR BLESSING OF SEEDS

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made heaven and earth.

V. The Lord be with you
R. And with your spirit.

V. Let us pray:

All: To you, O Lord, we cry and pray;
bless this sprouting seed,
strengthen it in the gentle movement of soft winds,
refresh it with the dew of heaven,
and let it grow to full maturity for the good of body and soul.

V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
R. Qui fecit caelum et terram.

V. Dominus vobiscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.

OREMUS

Te rogamus, Domine, ac petimus: 
ut hos fructus seminum bene+dicere, 
placido lenis aurae afflatu fovere, 
rore caelesti foecundare, 
et incolumes propter usum animarum et corporum 
ad plenissimam maturitatem perducere digneris. 
Per, etc.

(They are sprinkled with holy water.)

BLESSING OF SOIL

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord. 
R. Who made heaven and earth.

V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with your spirit.

V. Send forth Your spirit and they shall be created.
R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
V. For the Lord will give goodness;
R. And our earth shall yield her fruit.

Let us pray:
All: We humbly beg Your clemency, O Lord, that You would render this soil fertile with rains in due season, that You would fill it with Your blessing, and so grant that Your people may be ever thankful for Your gifts. Take infertility from the earth, and fill the hungry with Your gifts, which the fruitful earth will yield in fullness, that the poor and needy may praise the name of Your glory for ever and ever.

V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
R. Qui fecit caelum et terram.

V. Dominus vobiscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.

V. Emitte Spiritum tuum, et creabuntur,
R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.

V. Dominus dabit benignitatem.
R. Et terra nostra dabit fructum suum.
 

OREMUS

Pietatem tuam, omnipotens, Deus, humiliter imploramus, 
ut hos campos quos aeris temperamento nutrire dignatus es, 
tuae bene+dictionis imbre perfundere digneris, 
tribuens populo tuo de tuis muneribus tibi semper gratias, 
agere, et pulsa terrae sterlitate, 
esurientium animos bonis affluentibus replere, 
ut egeni et pauperes laudent nomen gloriae tuae in saecula saeculorum.

R. Amen.

(They are sprinkled with holy water).