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Please Pray With Us for All Priests
a novena for our priests
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:00 AM
In the comments on this recent post, StephC made the excellent suggestion that perhaps now would be a good time for us to pray as a community for all of our priests.
I am happy to get us started doing just that. I hope you will join us in praying a novena for priests here at Faith & Family Live. I will post daily reminders for the nine days of prayer. Together, let us pray a novena prayer for our priests:
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.
(I am not sure who wrote this prayer, but I really like it. I found it here, without attribution. If anyone knows its author, please let me know and I will update this post with credit.
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Posted by Marie M on Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011 6:20 PM (EDT):
Part of the prayer is attributed to St. Therese here:
http://www.priestsunday.org/pdfs/psundaybookmark_oct08.pdf
I’ll be printing it off and praying this every day!
Posted by Anne Crocombe on Thursday, Jun 23, 2011 4:50 AM (EDT):
During the Pope’s visit to England a couple of years ago we were all given the following prayer so that we could pray for our priests:
Gracious Father, give our priests courageous faith in the face of confusion and conflict, hope in time of trouble and sorrow and steadfast love for you and all your people.
May they grow in holiness and may the light of your truth shine through their lives and their good works.
We ask your blessing upon our seminarians and all who are discerning a call to the priesthood.
We ask you to stir into a flame the call to the priesthood you have placed into the hearts of men in our own Diocese and throughout the church.
We ask this in the name of your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ our Eternal High Priest.
St John Vianney, patron of priests pray for us and for all our priests. Amen
Posted by Mom of Boys on Thursday, Jun 23, 2011 9:11 AM (EDT):
I’m so happy to be able to join you in praying together for our priests because I can see what a difficult time they have and we need them to be holy. At a friends suggestion, I offer my Mass every Tues. for all priests. Before that I often forgot to pray for them. I’m in for the novena & thanks for suggesting it.
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