(Phiro tip to Philip Gerard Johnson)
"O Jesus, I pray for Your faithful and fervent priests, for Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your tempted priests; for Your lonely and desolate priests; for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in purgatory.
"But above all I recommend to You the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me; the priest who absolved me from my sins; the priest at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way. Jesus, keep them all close to Your heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen".
"For all the clergy and all the faithful, that their prayers may be a stronghold for us, let us pray to the Lord. Kyrie Eleison" - West Syriac Rite, ACCA use.
Please keep all bishops, priests, and deacons in your prayers, especially me, the most unworthy priest Gregory.
2 comments:
Really a beautiful prayer. One wonders if the Catholic Church had held onto this kind of appreciation of priests if the decline in vocations would have happened.
Fr. Greg,
Thank you for sharing this prayer. To it I add my Amen.
Peace of Christ,
John
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