Daily Prayer for Priests

O Almighty, Eternal God, look upon the Face of Your

Son and for love of Him, who is the Eternal High Priest,

have pity on Your priests. 

Remember, O most compassionate

God, that they are but weak and frail human beings.

Stir up in them the grace of their vocation which

is in them by the imposition of the bishop’s hands. 

Keep them close to You, lest the enemy prevail against them,

so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree

unworthy of their sublime vocation.

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 the lonely and desolate priests;

for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for the

souls of Your priests in purgatory.

But above all, I commend to you the priests 

dearest to me, the priest who baptized me, the

priests who have absolved me from my sins, the priests

at whose Masses I have assisted and who have offered

me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion, the

priests who have taught and instructed me or helped 

and encouraged me, and 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.

Enough said.