Prayers for Holy Priests

O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep all Thy priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart where none may harm them.

Keep unstained their anointed hands which daily touch Thy Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips purpled with Thy Precious Blood. 

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts sealed with the sublime marks of Thy glorious priesthood.

Let Thy 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 here below their joy and consolation and in Heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.

O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us; obtain for us a number of holy priests.

 

My Dear Jesus, 

You desire that we pray the Lord of the harvest that he send laborers into His harvest. Deign to raise up in Thy Church and especially in this diocese, numerous and holy priests who taking Thy Divine Heart as their Model, will in the exercise of their holy priesthood, promote the glory of Thy heavenly Father and the salvation of those souls whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy Precious Blood. Give us truly holy priests who, inflamed with the fire of Thy divine love, seek nothing but Thy greater glory and the salvations of souls.

O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us; obtain for us many holy priests.

 

Prayer to be Said at the Priest's Communion

O Lord, may You find shelter and rest gently within the heart of Thy priest...

Make him, O Lord, a priest according to Thy heart: meek, humble, and 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.