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Prayer for Priests
Keep them, I pray Thee dear Lord. - Keep them, for they are thine …
These priests whose lives burn out before - Thy consecrated shrine
Keep them, for they are in the world, - Though from the world apart.
When earthly treasures 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 - That they have none but Thee
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, - May you deign, dear Lord. To bless.
Amen.
Keep them, I pray Thee dear Lord. - Keep them, for they are thine …
These priests whose lives burn out before - Thy consecrated shrine
Keep them, for they are in the world, - Though from the world apart.
When earthly treasures 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 - That they have none but Thee
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, - May you deign, dear Lord. To bless.
Amen.