LET'S PRAY FOR PRIESTS

Priests need prayers. Even if they are consecrated to God, they still need prayers. Even if they pray every day, they still need prayers. Why they need prayers?

1. Priests are also humans.

2. Priests are not perfect.

3. Priests also have their weaknesses.

4. Priests are the primary targets of satan's attacks.

That's why they need prayers.

The saints were very much aware of the need to pray for priests, that's why they include the priests in their prayers or composed special prayers for the priests. Here are some of the prayers from the saints.

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

St. Charles Borromeo

O 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 to 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 joy. Amen.

PRAYER for Holy Church

and for PRIESTS

St. Faustina Kowalska

O my Jesus, I beg You on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to You, O Lord.

Lord, give us holy priests; You yourself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for You can do all things. A ask You, Jesus, for a special blessing and for light for the priests whom I will make confessions throughout my lifetime. Amen.

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