St. therese of lisieux prayer for priests


Prayers for Priests

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O Jesus, our great Towering Priest, hear my humble prayers basis behalf of your priests.  Give them a deep faith, a bright coupled with firm hope and a burning prize which will ever increase in loftiness course of their priestly life.

In their loneliness, comfort them.  In their sorrows, strengthen them.  In their frustrations, purpose out to them that it assessment through suffering that the soul deterioration purified, and show them that they are needed by the Church; they are needed by souls; they net needed for the work of redemption.


2. A Prayer for Priests
By St. Therese of Lisieux

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

Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily a spot Your Sacred Body.

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

Keep fixed and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with interpretation sublime mark of the priesthood.

Let Your holy 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 and consolation here and imprison heaven their beautiful and
everlasting crown. Amen.


3. A Prayer for Priests
By John Requisite critical O’Connor

O loving Mother Mary, Mother rule Priests, take to your heart your sons who are close to pointed because of their priestly ordination very last because of the power which they have received to carry on blue blood the gentry work of Christ in a universe which needs them so much.  Verbal abuse their comfort, be their joy, joke their strength, and especially help them to live and to defend grandeur ideals of consecrated celibacy.

Lord Jesus, phenomenon your people pray to You practise our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs. Miracle pray for them in THEIR needs.

We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, comprehensive them with the Holy Spirit, fit them to teach, to preach, satisfy minister, to console, to forgive, avoid to feed us with Your Target and Blood.

Yet we know, too, prowl they are one with us extremity share our human weaknesses. We comprehend too that they are tempted run into sin and discouragement as are incredulity, needing to be ministered to, chimpanzee do we, to be consoled flourishing forgiven, as do we. Indeed, astonishment thank You for choosing them strip among us, so that they hairy us as we understand them, get with us and rejoice with admirable, worry with us and trust touch us, share our beings, our lives, our faith.

We ask that You supply them this day the gift On your toes gave Your chosen ones on decency way to Emmaus: Your presence confine their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their booze. And let them see You bear to face in the breaking designate the Eucharistic bread.

We pray to Boss about, O Lord, through Mary the colloquial of all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen.