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Prayers for our 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.

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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 …).

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O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.

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Amen.

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Prayer of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus

Lord Jesus Christ, eternal High Priest,
you offered yourself to the Father on the altar of the cross and through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit gave your priestly people a share in your redeeming sacrifice.  Hear our prayer for the sanctification of our priests.  Grant that all who are ordained to the ministerial priesthood may be ever more conformed to you, the Divine Master.  May they preach the Gospel with pure heart and clear conscience.  Let them be shepherds according to your own heart, single-minded in service to you and to the Church, and shining examples of a holy, simple, and joyful life.  Through the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, your Mother and ours, draw all priests and the flocks entrusted to their care to the fullness of eternal life where you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

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Amen.

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Prayer by Pope Benedict XVI

Saint John Vianney

O Jesus, eternal Priest,
keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them.

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Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.

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Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with your Precious Blood.

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Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood.

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Let Your holy love surround them and
shield them from the world’s contagion.

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Bless their labors with abundant fruit and
may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. 

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Amen

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St. Therese of Lisieux

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