Please pray for priests

[AnneElliot]

O Jesus, Eternal High Priest,
keep all Your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart,
where none may harm them.

Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.

Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with Your Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime mark of Your glorious priesthood.

Let Your 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 minister
be their joy and consolation here
and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown.
Amen.

 

[kamaan]

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly life.

In their loneliness, comfort them. In their sorrows, strengthen them. In their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show them that they are needed by the Church; they are needed by souls; they are needed for the work of redemption.

O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your sons who are close to you because of their priestly ordination and because of the power which they have received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs them so much. Be their comfort, be their joy, be their strength, and especially help them to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.

 

[imi_uru]

Lord hear our prayers. Amen

 

[poor_clare]

O Holy Father, may the torrents of love flowing from the sacred wounds of Thy Divine Son bring forth priests like unto the beloved disciple John who stood at the foot of the Cross; priests: who as a pledge of Thine own most tender love will lovingly give Thy Divine Son to the souls of men.

May Thy priests be faithful guardians of Thy Church, as John was of Mary, whom he received into his house. Taught by this loving Mother who suffered so much on Calvary, may they display a mother’s care and thoughtfulness towards Thy children. May they teach souls to enter into close union with Thee through Mary who, as the Gate of Heaven, is specially the guardian of the treasures of Thy Divine Heart.

Give us priests who are on fire, and who are true children of Mary, priests who will give Jesus to souls with the same tenderness and care with which Mary carried the Little Child of Bethlehem.

Mother of sorrows and of love, out of compassion for Thy beloved Son, open in our hearts deep wells of love, so that we may console Him and give Him a generation of priests formed in thy school and having all the tender thoughtfulness of thine own spotless love.

• St Therese’s prayer for priests

 

[the_phoenix]

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

 

[HCC]

O Jesus, Eternal High Priest,
keep all Your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart,
where none may harm them.

Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.

Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with Your Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime mark of Your glorious priesthood.

Let Your 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 minister
be their joy and consolation here
and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown.
Amen.

Jesus, Mary, I love you. Save Souls! Save our clergy!
Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for them!