Prayer For Priests # 8
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 and abundant fruit,
and may the souls to whom they ministered here below
be 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.
Amen.
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