Prayer for Priests and Bishops:
O Jesus,
I pray for your faithful and reverent priests;
for your unfaithful and tepid priests;
for your priests labouring
at home or abroad in distant mission fields;
for your tempted priests;
for your lonely and desolate 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 who absolved me from my sins;
the priests of 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.
Composed by Saint Thesese of the Child Jesus.
Note: I do not know where this prayer came from. I copied it to my evernote prayer book and forgot to attribute the source. With all that has been going on of late I have been extra faithful in praying for priests. For priests I know, and for priests in general. I can count on one hand the number of priests I have encountered in life that I have had a bad experience with in some way or fashion. and I could count many many priests that I have encountered that were great pastors, prayer warriors, and exceptional men. And I have read some incredible books by priests, and about priests.
Last month I posted a different 'Prayer for Priests'.
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