Prayer for Seminarians

[Ray7088]

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

I would like to ask for your prayers for our men who are studying for the Holy Priesthood. There are many influences in the world, both natural and supernatural, that are corrupting our future priests. Please pray that they persevere and remain close to Our Lord, especially in the Blessed Sacrament, and to Our Lady. Please pray for those who are afflicted with various addictions. Please pray for those who are nearing ordination. Please take even only a few moments to pray for these men.

Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make their hearts like unto Thine.
Jesus, Savior of the world, sanctify Thy priests and sacred Ministers!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on them.

Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us!

 

[Trishie]

Vocations: formation
Heavenly Father, for love of Jesus, please give wisdom and unconditional love to those who respond to Your call to devote themselves to serve others. Grant them numerous occasions of grace and growth in human wholeness. Let them learn that each person is Your favourite, and that You work out our salvation within our actual selves in the ordinary framework of our lives.

Let moments of grace and trial lead them from selfishness to God’s unconditional love of others. Let doubt, boredom and difficulty trigger renewed inspiration to love You and others in realistic humility and optimism.

Help them to cope wisely with their own personality and needs in the face of weariness or stress, or in confronting others’ crises and emotional outbursts. Help them to deal with misunderstanding, cynicism, and failure despite their careful tending and generosity.
Prepare them to contend astutely with attempts to manipulate and seduce them to worldliness, error, or sin.
Habituate them to acknowledge the goodness and beauty of others while compassionately recognising flaws that may need guidance and prayer to overcome.

Grant that anyone assisting in formation of Your chosen ones will seek the Spirit’s guidance and wisdom rather than to impose their own opinions and preferences. Let Your ministers be instructed according to the correct entirety of ecclesiastical and divine revelation, receiving it with obedience, yet intelligent openness that allows questioning of those restrictions that Jesus Himself would loose. Where formation is deficient or misguided, others’ souls will also be deprived of right counsel.

Foster fraternity amongst Your chosen ones, our God, so that they witness the gospel love of unity and mutual service. Let no one regard their spiritual formation as complete when they are professed, ordained, or experienced, but let them seek continual conversion. Let Your love constitute their continuing formation in human wholeness and witness.

If You appear to favour those You call to priesthood more than you favour others, it is because You choose them in order more richly to serve others. Let them never betray this commission, or fail to revive it, but continue to grow in love and witness of Jesus to others.

In calling them to serve as priests, You have entrusted to them the guidance of souls in the Truth and the Sacraments of healing and grace. Let them never betray this commission, or fail to revive it, but continue to grow in love and witness of Jesus to others.

 

[Clare_G]

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!

 

[Trishie]

Eternal Father, please let the Word of God and the inspiration of Holy Spirit be the true spiritual director and guide of souls who come into their care.

Holy Spirit, be the fire in their teaching and witness, to flame their charges with love for the Trinity; and to light in them the blazing contagion of the gospel way of life!
Shine Your truth through them, so that in Your apt, creative and inspired use of the gifts and weaknesses of their nature, they may inspire their charges with fervour for on-going conversion, with Your divine thirst for souls, with Your love of truth justice and peace, Set them ablaze as evangelisers, zealous for Your Kingdom.

Illuminate our obstacles to Your grace. Remove them or re-form them into springboards for deeper love of God and correct love of ourselves and our brothers and sisters. Be You their true spiritual director. Thus, through Your life in Your spiritual directors, let the kingdom of God come to reign amongst us, for the salvation of souls and the glory of God.

Father please do not allow those who accept spiritual direction become attached to their directors, or to be fearful of them, but to see them as pathways to You. Please inspire their hearts and minds to listen and to welcome into their lives the witness and guidance given to them by their spiritual directors.

St Padre Pio, who along with so many of your time and earlier times, endured very strict novitiate and preparation for Profession and Priesthood, please pray that seminarians will allow God to work in their formation even when it is painful.
Pray that their spiritual direction will be according to God’s knowledge of seminarians strengths and weakness, and of the desired human and spiritual development for each one.
Please pray for their perseverance and obedience as it forms them to become true shepherds.

 

[catherine_m]

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst 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.

 

[MS_SURVEYOR]

***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 death.

Amen***

 

[ready]

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!

Amen.

 

[caritina]

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

 

[Prayerjohn]

Praying for seminarians.

 

[caritina]

Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make their hearts like unto Thine.
Jesus, Savior of the world, sanctify Thy priests and sacred Ministers!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on them.

Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us!

Amen!