A Prayer for Priests

O Jesus, I pray for Your faithful and fervent

priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priests;

for Your priests laboring at home or abroad

in distant mission fields; for Your tempted

priests; for Your lonely and desolate priests;

for Your young 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 at 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.

O Jesus, keep them all close to Your heart,

and bless them abundantly in time and in

eternity.

Amen.