Prayers for Our Priests...
Without them there is NO Holy Eucharist!!
In my parish there are those who take every opportunity to
criticize and fight against our parish priest and have been doing this over many
years... we have lost 3 highly devout
and holy priests, true to the Teachings of the Magisterium.
Laity has decided THEY are in charge and KNOW WHAT’S BEST, even sinking down to threatening that their contributions will stop!
Laity has decided THEY are in charge and KNOW WHAT’S BEST, even sinking down to threatening that their contributions will stop!
We need to SUPPORT our priests, they have a hard job!!
We need to bring back the
RESPECT AND LOVE
for our priests.
Please join me in praying for them every day and BE SUPPORTIVE
OF YOUR PRIEST…
Following are FIVE PRAYERS FOR PRIESTS...PLEASE PASS THEM ON.
A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS
By John
Cardinal O'Connor
Lord Jesus,
we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR
needs. We pray for them in THEIR needs.
We know that
You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have
consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Holy
Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to
forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood.
Yet we know,
too, that they are one with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that
they are tempted to sin and discouragement as are we, needing to be ministered
to, as do we, to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for
choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as we understand them,
suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our
beings, our lives, our faith.
We ask that
You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on the way to Emmaus:
Your presence in their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their
spirits. And let them see You face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic
bread.
We pray to
You, O Lord, through Mary the mother of all priests, for Your priests and for
ours. Amen.
March, 1995
NOVENA FOR PRIESTS
Jesus, Good
Shepherd,
You sent us
the Holy Spirit to guide Your Church
and lead her
faithful to You through the ministry of Your priests.
Through the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, grant to Your priests
wisdom in
leading,
faithfulness
in teaching,
and holiness
in guarding Your sacred Mysteries.
As they cry
out with all the faithful, "Abba, Father!"
may Your
priests be ever more closely identified
with You in Your
divine Son-ship
and offer
their own lives with You, the one saving Victim.
Make them
helpful brothers of one another,
and
understanding fathers of all Your people.
On this
Pentecost Sunday, renew in Your priests
deeper faith,
greater
trust in You,
childlike
reliance on our Mother Mary,
and
unwavering fidelity to the Holy Father and his bishops.
Holy Mary,
intercede for your priests.
St. Joseph,
protect them.
St. Michael,
defend them.
St. John
Vianney, pray for them.
LITANY FOR PRIESTS
Jesus, meek
and humble of heart,
give all
priests Thy spirit of humility;
Jesus, poor
and worn out for souls,
give all
priests Thy spirit of zeal;
Jesus, full
of patience and mercy for sinners,
give all
priests Thy spirit of compassion;
Jesus,
victim for the sins of the world,
give all
priests Thy spirit of sacrifice;
Jesus, lover
of the little and the poor,
give all
priests Thy spirit of charity.
Mary, Queen
of the Clergy, pray for us;
and obtain
for us numerous and holy
priests and
religious.
Amen.
PROTECTION FOR OUR
PRIESTS
O Jesus, Eternal Priest
Keep Thy Priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart
where none may touch them.
Keep unstained their hands, which daily touch Thy Sacred
Body;
Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with Thy Precious
Blood,
Keep pure and unworldly their hearts, sealed with the sublime
mark of Thy Priesthood.
Let Thy Holy Love surround them from the world’s
contagion. Bless their labors with
abundant fruit.
May the souls to whom they minister be their joy and
consolation here, and their everlasting crown in heaven.
Amen.
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