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.
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