Sunday, October 25, 2009

Priesthood Sunday

Blessed Mother and Priest

We want to wish all our beloved priests a very happy and blessed Priesthood Sunday. You will all be especially remembered in our prayers today.

Prayer for Priests

O my Jesus, I beg You on behalf of the whole Church:
Grant it love and light of Your Spirit,
and give Power to the words of priests
so that hardened hearts might be brought
to repentance and return to You, O Lord.

Lord, give us holy priests;
You Yourself maintain them in holiness.
O Divine and Great High Priests,
may the power of your mercy accompany them
everywhere and protect them
from the devil's traps and snares which are
continually being set for the souls of priests.
May the power of Your mercy, O lord, shatter
and bring to naught all that might
tarnish the sanctity of priests for You can do all things.
Amen.

(Diary of St. Maria Faustina, 1052)