Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests:
Lord Jesus, through the intercession
of St. John Mary Vianney, we your people pray to you for our priests. You have
given them to us for our needs. We 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, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to
teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your
Body and Blood.
Yet we know, too, that they are one
with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to
sin and discouragement as we are, needing to be ministered to, as do we, to be
consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them among
us so that they understand as we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice
with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings, our lives, our
faith.
We ask that you give them this day
the gift you gave your chosen ones on the way to Emmaus: Your presence in their
hearts, your holiness in their souls, your joy in their spirits. And let
them see you face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread.
We pray to you, our Lord, through
Mary the Mother of all priests, for your priests and for ours.
Holy Mary, intercede for your
priests.
St. Joseph, protect them.
St. Michael, defend them.
St. John Mary
Vianney, pray for them. Amen.
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