A great prayer for priests

[water]

I have this praying card which I use to pray for priests especially for my parish’s priests and my GodFather who is also a priest.

O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep ll They priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart, where none may harm them.

Keep unstained their anointed hands which daily touch Thy Sacred Body.

Keep unsullied their lips purpled with Thy Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime marks of Thy glorious priesthood.

Let Thy holy love surround them and shield them from the world’s contagion.

Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom they have ministered be here below their join and consolation and in Heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.

O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us; obtain us a number of holy priests.

 

[InLight247]

Thanks for sharing.
Here is a prayer I like:

O Jesus,
I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;
for your unfaithful and tepid priests;
for your priests laboring at home
or abroad in distant mission fields;
for your tempted priests;
for your lonely and desolate priest;
for your young priests;
for your dying priests;
for the souls of your priests in purgatory.
But above all I recommend to you
the priests dearest to me;
the priest who baptized me;
the priests who absolved me from my sins;
the priests who gave me your Body and Blood
in Holy Communion;
the priests who taught, instructed, and counseled me;
all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way.
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen!

 

[Margaret33]

water that is a beautiful prayer, it is the Prayer for Priests by St. Therese of Lisieux!

Another that I like:

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS
By the late John J Cardinal Carberry

Keep them; I pray Thee, dearest Lord.
Keep them, for they are Thine
The priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in the world,
Though from the world apart.
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure –
Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain,
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them and remember, Lord,
they have no one but Thee.
Yet, they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host,
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.

 

[water]

Thanks, and I had a typo:

The first line should say "O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep all Thy priests "