Prayers for Priests & Seminarians
"In union with Mary, Mother of the one Eternal High Priest and in response to the call of the Holy See, we seek to exercise a true spiritual maternity to Christ's priests, clergy and seminarians through daily self-offering in prayer and sacrifice. Particularly through daily Eucharistic adoration, we unite with other members of the Mystical Body of Christ to form "true and proper cenacles" of prayerful supplication for the sanctification of the clergy..."
O Jesus, Eternal Priest;
keep all Your priests within the shelter of Your
Sacred Heart, where none may harm them.
Keep unstained their anointed hands
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.
Keep unsullied their lips purpled with Your Precious Blood.
Keep pure and unearthly their hearts sealed with the
sublime marks of Your glorious priesthood.
Let Your holy love surround them and shield them
from the world's contagion.
Bless their labors with abundant fruit,
and may the souls to whom they have ministered
be their joy and consolation
and in Heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown.
O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us;
obtain for us many holy priests.
Amen.
Holy Father declares 2009-2010 Special Year of Priests
USCCB Vocations Video on Priesthood - "Fishers of Men"
Prayer for Seminarians
O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, I offer You through Your Immaculate Mother Mary, Your Own Precious Blood in all the Masses throughout the world, as petition for graces for all seminarians, Your future priests. Give them humility, meekness, prudence, and a burning zeal for souls. Fill their hearts with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Teach them to know and love the Church, that they may always and everywhere speak, act, and think with her, the glorious spouse of Christ. Teach them generosity and detachment from worldly goods; but above all, teach them to know You and to love the One and Only Eternal Priest.
Good Shepherd of Souls, hear this my prayer for saintly priests. Amen.
~~ taken from "Prayers for Today," published by Leaflet Missal Co.
