Prayers for Pope Francis and all Priests

O Jesus, Eternal Priest,

Bless and sanctify Pope Francis,

the shepherd of our Catholic Church,

Who leads our priests of the future.

May You give all these men who

have dedicated their lives to

Your holy way strength and

perseverance in faith and devotion.

Anoint their hands which daily touch

Your Sacred Body and their words

that teach Your Gospel message.

Protect them from

the temptations of this world.

Consecrate their labors 

with abundant fruit.

Fill them with compassion for 

the conversion of souls.

Walk beside them as they minister

at home and in distant lands.

Keep them always within the shelter of 

Your Most Sacred Heart.

Amen.

from the Priests of the Sacred Heart

Fr. Marino Angustura and Fr. Peter Dumag

in celebration of Mass at St. Philomena, 2010

Prayer for priests

Heavenly mentor Jesus,
You ordained priests, and we praise to the Lord
and give thanks to sacred heart.
You sent us priests and committed creed, law, treasure of grace, and soul to them.
Please give us grace to you by way of them,
loving them and listening to them.
Jesus, please send us good workers for your harvest.
And we pray for priests who can purify the world

...
and become the salt and light of the world.
Also, in heaven, we pray for their protection by the souls they saved.

-Pauline family prayer

Thank you to my friend Clara!

Prayers for Priests

Source: 2 Hearts Network

Remember, O most loving Heart of Jesus, that they for whom I pray are those for whom You prayed so earnestly the night before Your death. These are they to whom You look to continue with You in Your sorrows when others forsake You, who share Your griefs and have inherited your persecutions, according to Your word: That the servant is not greater than his Lord.

Remember, O Heart of Jesus, that they are the objects of the world's hatred and Satan's deadliest snares. Keep them then, O Jesus, in the safe citadel of Your Sacred Heart and there let them be sanctified in truth. May they be one with you and one among themselves, and grant that multitudes may be brought through their word to believe in You and love You. Amen.

Spiritual Moms or Helpers Offering and Invocation for Priests

My God and Father, in response to the word of your Son on the Mount of Olives, "Watch and pray with me," we ask you to accept us as special helpers for your priests, on behalf of whom, we offer you each Thursday as a sacrifice of love.

With a fervent desire of being such a helper of priests, I, __________________. offer you, Father, in complete confidence, each Thursday, as a sacrifice of love on behalf of all priests. Take t his sacrifice of my poor love and transform it in your Heart into the wine for the Chalice of Strength. Then Father, send your angels out with this chalice to all priests! Amen.

Source:  Chalice of Strength: Prayers for Priests

Prayer for Our Priests

Picture source

Eternal Father
We pray that you send us holy priests
consecrated to the Eucharistic and Sacred Heart of Jesus
with the sorrowful and immaculate heart of Mary
In union with Saint Joseph.

Eterno padre te rogamos nos envias sacerdotes santos
consagrados a la eucaristico y Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
al dolorosa y Inmaculado Corazón de María
en union con San José.

Source: My mom.

Prayer to be Said at the Priest's Communion

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O Lord may Thou find shelter and rest gently withingthe heart of Thy priest...

Make him, O Lord, a priest according to Thy Heart: meek, humble, zealous, so that all he does will be for Thine honor and glory. Mold him into a man of prayer and labor, insensible to earthly things and sensible only to Thy love, and to the graces of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Prayer source.

I do not remember if this prayer was previously posted here. It will be posted on the sidebar too.

Please pray for our priests!

National Vocation Awareness Week

NATIONAL VOCATION AWARENESS WEEK
January 9 – 15, 2011
From Fr. Peter Dumag, Director of Vocations
Source: Catholic Hawaii

January 9 – 15, 2011 is National Vocations Awareness Week. It begins with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. Let us remember to pray for priests and consecrated men and women this week, and for married couples and families. Send a card to a priest or consecrated person this week, thanking them for the gift of themselves given to Christ and to his body, the Church. Pray for more vocations to priesthood and consecrated life, and consider a vocation to priesthood and consecrated life.

I ask you to consider the following:
- include an intention at the Masses on this week from January 9-15
- place a notice about this week on your parish bulletin
- consider placing the Diocesan Prayer for Vocations in your bulletin, newsletters,
website, or other means of communication

Diocesan Prayer for Vocations

Heavenly Father, your divine Son taught us
to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His vineyard.
We earnestly beg you to bless our Diocese and our world
with many priests, deacons and religious who will love you
fervently and gladly and courageously spend their lives
in service to your Son's Church,
especially the poor and the needy.
Bless our families and our children, and choose from our homes
those whom you desire for this holy work.
Teach them to respond generously
and keep them ever faithful in following your Son Jesus Christ,
that under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
and with the inspiration of Saint Damien and Blessed Marianne
the Good News of redemption may be brought to all.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Today's Reading

Today's reading summarizes our bishop, the bishop of Hawai'i, Bishop Larry Silva.

"For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant,
not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive,
not greedy for sordid gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness,
temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled,
holding fast to the true message as taught
so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine
and to refute opponents."
Titus 1:1-9

We continue to pray for Bishop Larry Silva that he may continue to be a good shepherd of the flock in Hawai'i. We pray for Fr. Mark Alexander as well, all priests in the diocese, and all priests in general.

EWTN Family Prayer - Vocations to the Priesthood

Celebrating St. John Vianney, a Priest

St. John Mary Vianney

St. John Mary Vianney was born in Lyons in 1786. He was an ordinary man with an extraordinary calling. Unwilling to yield to God's call because of numerous trials and challenges he was faced with, God persisted to prod him to get him to finally give his fiat. With God's grace he became a priest, and was entrusted with a parish in the town of Ars in the Diocese of Belley. He cared for the people in his parish in many a marvelous way by his preaching, his mortification, prayer, and good works. He became a renowed priest so much so that people from many regions came to Ars seeking his counsels. He died in 1859.

Today we pray to Our Most High Priest Jesus Christ, with the intercession of St. John Mary Vianney, to bless all our priests, especially those in our respective dioceses. May God bless each one of them, fill them with his strength and wisdom that in their times of trials and challenges, they many never give up but be inspired to be the priest God calls them to be. We pray for our seminarians that they will continue to persevere in their studies. We ask this of the Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

New Prayer for our Priests

Prayer to Our Lady of the priesthood

Virgin Mary, mother of Christ the HIGH priest,
mother of all the priests in the entire world.
You love with a special love all the priests
because you see in them the image of your only Son.
You have helped Jesus during all of His lIfe
and you are helping now from heaven.
We beg your prayers for all our dear priests.
May God work through them when they celebrate
the sacraments and share the Gospel of Christ
and teach conversion in Truth to all the children of God.
Virgin Mary beg God for our priests that they be SAINTS.
Amen.

English translation by: Kathleen Ann Lewis

Added by Joanna Trejo de Solis
to the group "ADORACION AL SANTISIMO SACRAMENTO UNION DE ORACION MUNDIAL"ORACION A NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL SACERDOCIO.

VIRGEN MARÍA,
MADRE DE CRISTO SACERDOTE,
MADRE DE LOS SACERDOTES DEL MUNDO ENTERO.
TÚ AMAS CON UN AMOR ESPECIAL A LOS SACERDOTES
PORQUE ELLOS SON LA IMAGEN VIVA
DE TÚ HIJO ÚNICO.
TÚ HAS AYUDADO A JESÚS DURANTE TODA SU VIDA
Y LO AYUDÁIS TODAVÍA EN EL CIELO.
NOSOTROS OS SUPLICAMOS QUE RUEGUES POR LOS SACERDOTES.
ROGAD A DIOS QUE ENVÍE OPERARIOS A SU MIES.
ROGAD PARA QUE TENGAMOS SACERDOTES
QUE CELEBREN LOS SACRAMENTOS,
QUE NOS EXPLIQUEN EL EVANGELIO DE CRISTO,
QUE NOS ENSEÑEN A CONVERTIRNOS EN VERDADEROS HIJOS DE DIOS.
VIRGEN MARÍA, PEDID A DIOS PADRE POR LOS SACERDOTES
PARA QUE SEAN SANTOS. AMÉN

A Prayer for Priests

E Pule Kakou

The next E Pule Kakou, Hawaii Uniting in Prayer is scheduled for Thanksgiving Week, November 25-29, 2009. I encourage all parishes to register and participate in this event.

To register and for more information on what your parish can do, go to
http://www.epulekakou.com/register_church.html Answer the call of “E Pule Kakou” for all PASTORS AND CHURCHES who believe in the Lordship and salvation of Jesus Christ and the authority of the Bible to open their doors and set aside a time for prayer and repentance in their services on the week of November 25 to 29, and to invite ALL of the PEOPLE of Hawai’i, EVERY BELIEVER of Hawai’i, to go to participating churches to pray on November 25 to 29.

Timothy 2:1-5: “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all people, for kings and all who are in authority . . .

Source: E Pule Kakou

In this video: Vicar General of the Diocese of Honolulu, Fr. Marc Alexander,

and Pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Fr. Gary Secor.

Prayer to St. Damien

Below is a prayer for everyone, including our priests. St. Damien truly is an inspiration to all.


Saint Damien Prayer

St. Damien, brother on the journey,
Happy and generous missionary,
who loved the Gospel more than your life,
who for love of Jesus left your family,
your homeland, your security, your dreams,

Teach us to give our lives
with a joy like yours,
to be in solidarity with the outcasts of the world,
to celebrate and contemplate the Eucharist
as the source of our committment.

Help us to love to the very end
and, in the strength of the Spirit,
to persevere in compassion
for the poor and forgotten
so that we might be
good disciples of Jesus and Mary.

Amen.

Source: www.fatherdamien.com
Used with permission

Litany for All Priests

AussieAnnie shares this beautiful litany. Please visit her beautiful blog to see the source for the prayer:

Let us pray for the Holy Father,
Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops,

Diocesan priests,

Priests in seminary work,

Priests in hospital work,

Priests who are ill,

Priests in danger,

Priests who are weak,

Priests who are poor,

Priests who are zealous,

Priests who want to love you,

Priests who are sad,

Priests who are worried,

Priests who are old,

Priests who are young,

Priests who are alone,

Missionary priests,
Priest who are preachers,

Priests who direct souls,

Parish priests,

Religious priests,

Priests and religious who have died,

Of all the Church, militant and suffering,

For all priests,

Give them respect for their dignity.

Give them a great love for Mary.

Give them rectitude and justice.

Give them the gift of counsel.

Fill him with your graces, Lord

Give them Your gifts, Lord

Never leave them, Lord

Give them Your wisdom, Lord

Give them constancy, Lord

Heal them, Lord

Deliver them, Lord

Strengthen them, Lord

Relieve them, Lord

Help them, Lord

Enkindle their hearts, Lord

Console them, Lord

Give them peace, Lord

Sustain them, Lord

Impel them for Your glory, Lord

Accompany them, Lord

Protect them, Lord

Enlighten them, Lord

Instruct them, Lord

Give them prudence, Lord

Make them perfect, Lord

Bring them to glory, Lord

Lord, have mercy

For all Priests,

Give them peace in their sufferings.

Give them humility and generosity.

Let them be the light of souls.

Let them be the salt of the earth.

Let them practice sacrifice and self-denial.

Let them enkindle hearts with love of Mary.

Let them be other Christs.

Let them be holy in body and soul.

May they be men of prayer.

May faith shine forth in them.

May they be concerned only for the salvation of souls.

May they be faithful to their priestly vocation.

May their hands know only how to bless.

May they burn with love for you and for Mary.

May all their steps be for the glory of God.

May the Holy Spirit possess them, and give them His gifts and fruits in abundance.

Let us pray:

O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. You are the soul and life of the Church. Hear the prayers we offer for priests. We ask this through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, their protector and guide. Amen.

For Spiritual "Moms" of Priests

Note: Easter and I believe that the patron saint for our apostolate should be none other than the Mother of all Priests...our Malia O Ka Malu (Mary, Our Lady of Peace).

Father Mark Kirby shares the following Morning Offering for Spiritual Mothers and those discerning to spiritually adopt a priest. Mahalo Father Mark!

So many women write to me asking for counsel concerning the Spiritual Motherhood of Priests. My first recommendation would be that any woman considering this vocation recite the following Morning Offering -- sincerely and from the heart -- for 30 days in succession.

Father most holy,
I offer You the prayers, works,
joys, and sufferings of this day
by placing them in the holy and venerable hands
of Jesus, the Eternal High Priest,
and by saying, as He did upon entering the world,
"Behold, I come to do Your will" (Hebrews 10:9).

For the sake of all His priests,
and in particular for the priest(s)
entrusted to my maternal intercession,
I entreat Your beloved Son to unite my offering
to the Sacrifice of the Cross,
renewed upon the altars of Your Church
from the rising of the sun to its setting (Malachy 1:11).

Most merciful Father,
look upon these men chosen by Your Son
to show forth His death until He comes (1 Cor 11:26);
keep them from the Evil One (John 17:15)
and sanctify them in the truth (John 17:17).

Bind them by a most tender love
to the Virgin Mary, their Mother
that, by her intercession,
they may be overshadowed by the power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35)
in every act of their sacred ministry;
thus may their priesthood reveal
the Face of Jesus and the merciful love of His Heart,
for the fruitfulness of His spouse, the Church.
and the praise of Your glory. Amen.

Fr. Bruno's Prayer for Priests dated 1925

Father Bruno’s PRAYER FOR PRIESTS 1925

O almighty and eternal God, look upon the face of Your Christ, and for love of Him who is the eternal High-priest, have pity on your priests. Remember, O most compassionate God, that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation which in them by the imposition of the Bishop’s hands. Keep them close to You, lest the enemy prevail against them, so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.

O Jesus, I pray You for Your faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for You priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your tempted priests; for Your lonely and desolate priests; for Your sick priests; for Your aged priests, for Your dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in purgatory.

But above all I commend 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 priest who taught and instructed me or helped me and encourage me; all the priest to whom I am indebted in any other way, particularly . . . O Jesus, keep them all close to Your heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen

Prayer to implore the grace to safeguard chastity

For a priest to pray daily:

Lord Jesus Christ, spouse of my soul, delight of my heart and my soul, I fall on my knees before you, praying and fervently beseeching you to allow me to persevere and grow in the true faith each day. O sweet Jesus, grant that I may reject all impiety and that I may be a stranger to the carnal desires and earthly concupiscence which fight against my soul. Through your help, may I preserve my chastity unstained.

O most holy and immaculate Virgin Mary, Virgin of virgins and most beloved Mother, purify my heart and soul each day, and obtain for me a holy fear of the Lord and a particular distrust of my own strength.

St. Joseph, guardian of the virginity of Mary, keep my soul from all sin.

All of you holy Virgins who unceasingly follow the divine Lamb, be solicitous to me a sinner, that I may avoid sin in thoughts, words, actions or omissions, and that I may never be far from the most chaste heart of Jesus. Amen.

Source

Prayer for Troubled Priests

Eternal Father, creator of all things, we reverence Your continued grace and presence in the priesthood of You only begotten Son, now shared by Him with men. In the weakness which You know, some of those called to participate in the priesthood of the eternal high priest have fallen from the heights to which they were summoned. Do not, we beg You, cast them forever from Your sight. Be mindful, rather, of their hearts as they were touched by Your grace in the beginnings of their priesthood. Restore to them by a flood of Your grace that generosity which they knew in life's morning. Amen.

Shared by Sue of Half the Kingdom

A Prayer for Priests and Missionaries

My dear Jesus, by Your most loving Heart, I implore You to inflame with zeal for Your love and glory all the priests of the world, all missionaries, and those whose office it is to preach Your word. Inflamed with this zeal, may they snatch souls from the devil and lead them into the shelter of Your Heart, where they may glorify You forever. Amen.

Shared by Sue of Half the Kingdom