1. Prayer of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
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 (especially …).
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen.
2. Prayer for Priests
Gracious and loving God, we thank you for the gift of our priests.
Through them, we experience your presence in the sacraments.
Help our priests to be strong in their vocation.
Set their souls on fire with love for your people.
Grant them the wisdom, understanding, and strength they need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
Inspire them with the vision of your Kingdom.
Give them the words they need to spread the Gospel.
Allow them to experience joy in their ministry.
Help them to become instruments of your divine grace.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns as our Eternal Priest.
Amen.
A Prayer for 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 labours 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 and intercede for our precious priests and clergy, especially those on our Honour Roll. Amen.
God bless you all for your prayers for our church hierarchy and for seminarians and those contemplating priesthood or religious life. We so need priests and more religious. They so need our prayers and sacrifice. Please also remember to thank your priests often for their ministry and for their priesthood and also our religious too and our seminarians too; they so need our support and to hear a positive word about their vocations. If you know of someone who is contemplating priesthood or religious life they so need our positive support and encouragement too.
A Prayer for Priests, religious, seminarians and those contemplating vocations.
LORD, we lift up to your these on our honour roll and all the priests religious, seminarians, & those contemplating priestly or religious life. Sanctify them, heal them; guide them, mould them into the likeness and holiness of Your Son, Jesus, the Eternal High Priest. May their lives be pleasing to You, in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen
Prayer when looking at a Crucifix
My Lord, please bathe (priest’s or religious name) in Your Precious Blood and protect him/her from all evil. Amen
Prayer before Mass
My Lord, please fill (priest’s name) with Your love as he prepares to celebrate Holy Mass with You today. Amen.
Prayer before the Gospel
My Lord, please proclaim Your Word through (Priest’s name) Amen.
Prayer before homily
My Lord, please anoint (Priest’s name) that he may speak what You want him to speak and open our hearts so that we can hear what You
want us to hear. Amen
Prayer before consecration
My Lord, help us to see You in (Priests Name) as he consecrates with You the bread and wine into Your Body and Blood. Amen.
Prayer after Communion
My Lord, please heal (priest’s name) by the power of Your Eucharistic presence within him. Amen.
Prayer after Mass
My Lord, I thank You for celebrating Mass with (priest’s name). Please bless him abundantly on this day. Amen.
Prayer for Priests
Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord,
Keep them, for they are Thine –
Thy priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in the world.
Though from the world apart;
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, –
Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain,
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember, Lord,
They have no one but Thee,
Yet they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host,
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.
Another Prayer for Priests
0 Holy Mother of God,
pray for the priests your Son has chosen to serve the Church.
Help them, by your intercession, to be holy, zealous, and chaste.
Make them models of virtue in the service of God’s people.
Help them be pious in meditation, efficacious in preaching,
and zealous in the daily offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Help them administer the Sacraments with love and joy. Amen.
Thou Art a Priest Forever ~ J.B. Henri Lacordaire, OP
To live in the midst of the world with no desire for its pleasure…
To be a member of every family yet belonging to none…
To share all sufferings; to penetrate all secrets; to heal all wounds…
To daily go from men to God to offer Him their petitions…
To return from God to men to offer them His hope…
To have a heart of fire for charity and a heart of bronze for chastity…
To bless and be blessed forever.
O God, what a life, and it is yours,
O Priest of Jesus Christ!
Prayer for Priests
In Your divine Goodness and Holiness, O Eternal Father, I adore You.
Through Your divine Truth and Wisdom, O Eternal Son, I adore You.
By Your divine Love and Harmony, O Eternal Spirit, I adore You.
I pray for this Priest,
and all the Priests of this Parish. (Deanery / Diocese)
I beg You, most Holy Trinity,
make them perfect Priests,
in the image of Jesus Christ,
The Eternal Priest.
Give them the Grace of perfect obedience
to our Holy Father, The Pope.
Give the Grace of perfect devotion
to the Blessed Virgin Mary,
making them champions of her Marian movement.
Give them the Grace of perfect adoration
of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
For these purposes and for these reasons,
I consecrate them,
all that they are, all that they do, all that they have,
past, present and to come, forever,
to The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and into the company of the Angels, Saints and Holy Souls. AMEN.
“I WILL GIVE YOU SHEPHERDS AFTER MY OWN HEART, WHO WILL LEAD YOU WITH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING.” JEREMIAH 3:15 (NIV)