O Almighty Eternal God, Look upon the
face of Thy Christ, and for the love of Him, Who is the Eternal High
Priest, have pity on Thy priests. Remember, O most compassionate God,
that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace
of their vocation which is in them by the imposition of the Bishop’s
hands. Keep them close to Thee, lest the enemy prevail against them, so
that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of
their sublime vocation.
O Jesus, I
pray to Thee, for Thy faithful and fervent priests; for Thy unfaithful
and tepid priests; for Thy priests laboring at home or abroad in distant
mission fields; for Thy tempted priests, for Thy lonely and desolate
priests; for Thy young priests; for Thy aged priests; for Thy sick
priests; for Thy dying priests; for the souls of Thy priests in
purgatory.
But above all, I commend
to Thee the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me; the
priests who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I
assisted and who gave me Thy Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the
priests who taught and instructed me or helped and encouraged me; all
the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way, particularly [name a
particular priest of your choosing here]. O Jesus, keep them all close
to Thy heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.
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