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The importance of praying
for priests
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priests
Pray for priests. Love them. Support them. Help them to be
holy. We are weak and fragile. If your knees are not bent in prayer
for us, we stumble and fall. We need your prayer. ~ Fr Jozo Zovko
ofm
Dear Prayer Group: My weekly reminder to pray for all those
priests, religious, seminarians and those contemplating the
priesthood.
Please let's remember to thank our priests for their
priesthood. Without them we have no Jesus in the
Eucharist. Affirm your priests and their ministry; compliment
them when you can, write a letter of praise about your priest to
his superior or bishop, let him know how his priesthood has helped
you grow in holiness. Drop him a note of thanksgiving for his
priesthood. There are countless ways. If any of you can share
some way you have affirmed your priest that would be great. This is
the Christmas season, please let us remember our priests even if
only with a card affirming their priesthood. Offering a Mass
or novena for them in that card is a great gift or having a Mass
said for them. If anyone has ways to help affirm our priests let me
know and I will pass them along each week. One lady sent me
an e-mail that now her rosary prayer group now also is for prayer
for priests, how wonderful and she has it in Spanish and
English.
God bless you all for your prayers for our church heirarchy and
please also remember to pray for our seminarians and those
contemplating the priesthood. We so need priests. Carole
posted on IIPG
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A Prayer for
Priests
O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep all Thy priests within the
shelter of Thy Sacred Heart where none may harm them.
Keep unstained their anointed hands which daily touch Thy Sacred
Body. Keep unsullied their lips purpled with Thy Precious
Blood.
Keep pure and unearthly their hearts sealed with the sublime marks
of Thy glorious priesthood.
Let Thy holy love surround them and shield them from the world's
contagion.
Bless their labours with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom
they have ministered be here below their joy and consolation and
in
Heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen
O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray and intercede for our precious
priests and clergy, especially those on our Honour Roll.
Amen.
God bless you all for your prayers for our church hierarchy and
for seminarians and those contemplating priesthood or religious
life. We so need priests and more religious. They so need our
prayers and sacrifice. Please also remember to thank your
priests often for their ministry and for their priesthood and also
our religious too and our seminarians too; they so need our support
and to hear a positive word about their vocations. If you know of
someone who is contemplating priesthood or religious life they so
need our positive support and encouragement too.
A Prayer for Priests, religious, seminarians and those
contemplating vocations.
LORD, we lift up to your these on
our honour roll and all the priests religious, seminarians, &
those contemplating priestly or religious life. Sanctify
them, heal them; guide them, mould them into the likeness and
holiness of Your Son, Jesus, the Eternal High Priest. May their
lives be pleasing to You, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen
Prayer when looking at a Crucifix
My Lord, please bathe (priest's or religious name) in Your Precious
Blood and protect him/her from all evil. Amen
Prayer before Mass
My Lord, please fill (priest's name) with Your love as he prepares
to celebrate Holy Mass with You today. Amen.
Prayer before the Gospel
My Lord, please proclaim Your Word through (Priest's name)
Amen.
Prayer before homily
My Lord, please anoint (Priest's name) that he may speak what You
want him to speak and open our hearts so that we can hear
what You
want us to hear. Amen
Prayer before Consecration
My Lord, help us to see You in (Priests Name) as he consecrates
with You the bread and wine into Your Body and Blood. Amen.
Prayer after Communion
My Lord, please heal (priest's
name) by the power of Your Eucharistic presence within him.
Amen.
Prayer after Mass
My Lord, I thank You for celebrating Mass with (priests name).
Please bless him abundantly this day. Amen.
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Prayer for Priests
Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord,
Keep them, for they are Thine -
Thy priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in
the world.
Though from the world apart;
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, -
Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them
in hours
Of loneliness and pain,
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember,
Lord,
They have no one but Thee,
Yet they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.
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Keep them as spotless as the
Host,
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.
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Another Prayer for
Priests
0 Holy Mother of God,
pray for the priests your Son has chosen to serve the
Church.
Help them, by your intercession, to be holy, zealous, and
chaste.
Make them models of virtue in the service of God's
people.
Help them be pious in meditation, efficacious in
preaching,
and zealous in the daily offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass.
Help them administer the Sacraments with love and joy.
Amen.
More prayers
below:-
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Thou Art a Priest Forever
~ J.B. Henri Lacordaire, OP
To live in
the midst of the world with no desire for its pleasure...
To be a member of every family yet belonging to none...
To share all sufferings; to penetrate all secrets; to heal all
wounds...
To daily go from men to God to offer Him their petitions...
To return from God to men to offer them His hope...
To have a heart of fire for charity and a heart of bronze for
chastity...
To bless and be blest forever.
O God, what a life, and it is yours,
O Priest of Jesus Christ!
Prayer for Priests
In Your divine Goodness and Holiness, O Eternal
Father, I adore You.
Through Your divine Truth and Wisdom, O Eternal Son, I adore
You.
By Your divine Love and Harmony, O Eternal Spirit, I adore You.
I pray for this Priest,
and all the Priests of this Parish. (Deanery / Diocese)
I beg You, most Holy Trinity,
make them perfect Priests,
in the image of Jesus Christ,
The Eternal Priest.
Give them the Grace of perfect obedience
to our Holy Father, The Pope.
Give the Grace of perfect devotion
to the Blessed Virgin Mary,
making them champions of her Marian movement.
Give them the Grace of perfect adoration
of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
For these purposes and for these reasons,
I consecrate them,
all that they are, all that they do, all that they have,
past, present and to come, forever,
to The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart
of the blessed Virgin Mary,
and into the company of the Angels, Saints and Holy Souls.
AMEN.
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Keepers of the flame: "I WILL GIVE YOU SHEPHERDS AFTER
MY OWN HEART, WHO WILL LEAD YOU WITH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING."
JEREMIAH 3:15 (NIV)
Picture this: Joshua’s soldiers are down in the valley fighting the Amalekites. Above him, on a hilltop, sits Moses with his hands
raised towards heaven. So long as he does, the battle goes their
way. But if you’ve ever tried to hold your hands up for long,
you’ll know that you quickly grow weary and lower them. The moment
Moses did that, the battle went against Israel. So Aaron and Hur
moved to his side, held up his arms, and the tide turned again in
their favour. Notice, it wasn’t Joshua’s ability to fight, it was
Moses’ ability to hold up his arms that won the day. Two men kept
one man from fainting, so that an entire nation could be saved.
If your pastor’s arms drop from exhaustion, God will judge you,
not him, because you weren’t there to strengthen him. Take a moment
and let that sink in!
If God’s given you a pastor who leads you and feeds you –
support him! In the Old Testament tabernacle, the candlesticks
had to be kept burning day and night because their light
represented God’s presence amongst His people. If a candle so much
as flickered, designated servants moved in immediately to trim it
and restore it to its original glow.
It’s your responsibility to make sure that the light doesn’t
flicker in your church or the fire go out in your pulpit. So
pray for your pastor every day and be sure to encourage him every
chance you get! Over one half of those who enter the ministry leave
it within 10 years – because of discouragement! What a challenge
to the keepers of the flame! www.ucb.co.uk/
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On the feast of the Sacred Heart,
Friday June 19th 2009, the Holy Father opened the Year for Priests
with Vespers in St. Peter's Basilica. Pope Benedict is calling on all priests to strive for
spiritual and moral perfection, and so become better leaders of the
parishes. He also asks all Catholics to pray for the growth of
their priests in holiness, and for vocations.
"A priest is not born of
an angel but of a mother. He is chosen from amongst the
people, is anointed with the Sacrament of Priesthood
and returned back to the people, to the Church - into their
care, their prayer and their love. The priest is a sign of
the omnipotence of our God. Pray for priests. Love them.
Support them. Help them to be holy. We are weak and fragile.
If your knees are not bent in prayer for us, we stumble and
fall. We need your prayer." ~ Fr. Jozo Zovko
ofm
St. John Marie Vianney,
Cure d’Ars, said: “If I were to meet a priest
and an angel, I would greet the priest first and then the angel ...
If there were no priest, the Passion and death of Jesus would serve
no purpose. What use is a treasure chest full of gold if
there is no one who can unlock it? The priest has the key to
the treasures of Heaven."
Act of Love of the Cure of
Ars "I love You, O my God and my sole
desire is to love You until the last breath of my life. I
love You, O infinitely lovable God and I prefer to die loving You
than live one instant without loving You. I love You, O my
God, and I do not desire anything but Heaven so as to have the joy
of loving You perfectly. I love You, O my God, and I fear
hell, because there will not be the sweet consolation of loving
You. O my God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I
love You, I want my heart to say it in every beat. Allow me the
grace to suffer loving You, to love you suffering and one day to
die loving You and feeling that I love You. And as I approach my
end, I beg you to increase and perfect my love of You.”
A prayer for Vocations, by the Cure
of Ars.
My dear Jesus, You desire that we pray the Lord of the harvest that
he send zealous labourers into his harvest.
Deign to raise up in your church, and especially in this diocese,
numerous and holy priests who, taking your
divine heart as their model, will, in the exercise of their holy
priesthood, promote the glory of your heavenly
Father and the salvation of those souls whom you have redeemed with
your precious blood. Give us truly holy
priests who, inflamed with the fire of your divine love, seek
nothing but your greater glory and the salvation of
souls. O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us; obtain for us a
great number of vocations to the priesthood.
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