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Trishie
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Jesus, You chose Your priests from amongst Your people, yet in the sacramental ‘laying of hands’ You do not perfect them. Like those they serve, they need pardon, healing, prayer and faith as they seek grace to become humble, genuine witnesses of Christ. Through Sacrament and intercession, teaching and act, they encourage and instruct Your people as You call them in their personal human history and reality, to be instruments of Your grace for others.
By your honest expression of rightly directed human emotion, intelligence and personality, You witnessed the wholeness of our nature when creatively lived in God’s love. In Your authenticity as a vital human, You revealed that each person’s salvation is projected around reality, not around some ideal self. Wholeness is found in one’s actual situation with its limitations and advantages. It is offered within one’s true personality in its abilities and handicaps.
Allow Your priests to recognise Your unique expression of love in each other person. Give them the gift of revealing to everyone they meet and serve—the image within him/her of the glorious, loving beauty of You amid his/her human frailties and strengths. Your priests thus encourage their peoples’ trust and affirm their hope in Your patient lifelong moulding of them in the overwhelming love of Your personal plan for them.
In Your priests, therefore—who are no less human than any other person—is manifest the wise charity and the gentle humility of Christ, to each person who comes before You in contrition, thankfulness, faith and joy. We thank and praise You Jesus, who shared all weakness of our nature except sin.
Help Your priests to respect and encourage everyone, pardoning those who offend or inconvenience them. In liberty of spirit born of obedience, faith, and of freedom from undue attachments—Your priests allow Your grace and witness to flow through them to others. We trust that You accomplish this even where there is no evidence of Your action.
Please sustain Your priests as generous, inspired instruments of grace for Your continuing mission, as they alert others to the light of the Spirit in their lives. Your priests glorify You, as they daily accept this joyful cross of their priestly ministry, while managing the challenges of their own vulnerable humanity!
Thank You Jesus, Who throughout the ages lovingly uses Your chosen human creatures as instruments of love, service, and glory!
By your honest expression of rightly directed human emotion, intelligence and personality, You witnessed the wholeness of our nature when creatively lived in God’s love. In Your authenticity as a vital human, You revealed that each person’s salvation is projected around reality, not around some ideal self. Wholeness is found in one’s actual situation with its limitations and advantages. It is offered within one’s true personality in its abilities and handicaps.
Allow Your priests to recognise Your unique expression of love in each other person. Give them the gift of revealing to everyone they meet and serve—the image within him/her of the glorious, loving beauty of You amid his/her human frailties and strengths. Your priests thus encourage their peoples’ trust and affirm their hope in Your patient lifelong moulding of them in the overwhelming love of Your personal plan for them.
In Your priests, therefore—who are no less human than any other person—is manifest the wise charity and the gentle humility of Christ, to each person who comes before You in contrition, thankfulness, faith and joy. We thank and praise You Jesus, who shared all weakness of our nature except sin.
Help Your priests to respect and encourage everyone, pardoning those who offend or inconvenience them. In liberty of spirit born of obedience, faith, and of freedom from undue attachments—Your priests allow Your grace and witness to flow through them to others. We trust that You accomplish this even where there is no evidence of Your action.
Please sustain Your priests as generous, inspired instruments of grace for Your continuing mission, as they alert others to the light of the Spirit in their lives. Your priests glorify You, as they daily accept this joyful cross of their priestly ministry, while managing the challenges of their own vulnerable humanity!
Thank You Jesus, Who throughout the ages lovingly uses Your chosen human creatures as instruments of love, service, and glory!