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Devotions
"Every priest is chosen by the Lord, and placed in the world to labor, not to acquire wealth, nor applause, nor to indulge in amusements, nor to advance his family, but only to promote the interests of God's glory."
-- Saint Alphonsus Liguori (The Dignity and Duties of the Priest)
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Prayer for Priests III
Almighty God,
look upon the face of Him who is the Eternal High Priest,
and have compassion on Your priests in today's world.
Remember that they are but weak and frail human beings.
Stir up in them the grace of their vocation.
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 for Your faithful and fervent priests,
for the unfaithful and tepid ones;
for those laboring at home and
abroad in distant mission fields;
for those who are tempted;
for those who are lonely and desolate;
for those who are 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 instructed me or
helped me by their encouragement.
I pray devoutly for all the priests to whom I am indebted
in any other way, in particular for . . .
O Jesus,
keep them all close to Your heart and bless them abundantly
in time and in eternity.
Amen.
O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us;
obtain for us a number of holy priests.
Amen.
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