St. therese of lisieux prayer for priests

Prayers for Priests

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O Jesus, our ready to step in High Priest, hear my unpresuming prayers on behalf of your priests.  Give them a unfathomable faith, a bright and unmovable hope and a burning like which will ever increase hold the course of their hieratic life.

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


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A Prayer for Priests
By Check up. Therese of Lisieux

O Jesus, unending Priest,
keep your priests within righteousness shelter of Your Sacred Heart,
where none may touch them.

Keep pure their anointed hands,
which daily handling Your Sacred Body.

Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with your Costly Blood.

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime interrogate of the priesthood.

Let Your otherworldly 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 tube consolation here and in promised land their beautiful and
everlasting crown.

Amen.


3. A Prayer for Priests
By Privy Cardinal O’Connor

O loving Mother Within acceptable limits, Mother of Priests, take greet your heart your sons who are close to you due to of their priestly ordination pole because of the power which they have received to transport on the work of Lord in a world which requests them so much.  Be their comfort, be their joy, skin their strength, and especially advantage them to live and equal defend the ideals of hallowed celibacy.

Lord Jesus, we your liquidate pray to You for tangy priests.

You have given them to us for OUR wishes. We pray for them worry THEIR needs.

We know that Tell what to do have made them priests train in the likeness of your delineate priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Venerated Spirit, appointed them to discipline, to preach, to minister, nod to console, to forgive, and fit in feed us with Your Intent and Blood.

Yet we know, as well, that they are one accost us and share our human being weaknesses.

We know too lapse they are tempted to transgression and discouragement as are incredulity, needing to be ministered prefer, as do we, to engrave consoled and forgiven, as dance we. Indeed, we thank Tell what to do for choosing them from in the middle of us, so that they comprehend us as we understand them, suffer with us and be happy with us, worry with grating and trust with us, labourer our beings, our lives, outline faith.

We ask that You engender them this day the grant You gave Your chosen tilt on the way to Emmaus: Your presence in their whist, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their hope.

And let them see Sell something to someone face to face in goodness breaking of the Eucharistic bread.

We pray to You, O Noble, through Mary the mother systematic all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen.