Praying for Priests
The most important way to support our priests is to pray for them.
Prayer for Priests
(Sometimes attributed to St. Thérèse)
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 priests who absolved me from my sins;
the priests 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 (especially…).
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen.
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Chaplet of Reparation for Priests
Offered in reparation for the sins of priests and for the renewal and sanctification of the priests.
(To be prayed on the rosary)
Incline (+) unto my aid, O Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
World without end.
(On each of the Our Father beads)
Eternal Father, I offer Thee
The Precious Blood of Thy Beloved Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb without blemish or spot,
in reparation for my sins
and for the sins of all Thy priests.
(On each of the Hail Mary beads):
By thy Precious Blood, O Jesus,
Purify and sanctify thy priests.
(In place of the Glory be to the Father):
O Father, from whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth is named,
Have mercy on all thy priests, and wash them in the Blood of the Lamb.
Adapted From In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart, Ignatius Press
