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Dear Prayer Group: (IIPG) http://www.iipg-queenofpeace.org/ 
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 IIPG GROUP http://www.iipg-queenofpeace.org/ 

  We must take it seriously to pray every day for our beloved priests and their families too.   You can add names on
www.prayforpriests.org Remember it takes 24 hours for your names to be posted.
Please also pray for our prayforpriests ministry, we really could use your prayers.  
 

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 heirary 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 honor 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.

LINKS: Intercessory Prayers for Priests ~ http://www.intercessionforpriests.org/prayer.htm

Pray for Priests & Bishops ~ http://prayforpriests.org/html/ ~ A Roman Catholic Apostolate to pray for priests and bishops.

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!

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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