Encouragement for Priests

Heavenly Father, grant that our priests be strengthened and healed
by the power of the Eucharist they celebrate. 
May the Word they proclaim give them courage and wisdom.

We pray that all those whom they seek to serve 
May see in them the love and care of Jesus, 
Our Eternal High Priest, who is Lord for ever and ever. Amen.

Mary, Mother of the Church, look tenderly upon your sons, our priests. 
St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us all.

8. 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 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.

St. Faustina, Prayer for 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.

But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:

the priest who baptized me;

the priests who've absolved me from my sins;

the priests at whose Masses I've assisted and who've given me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion;

the priests who've taught and instructed me;

all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way, especially...

O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,

and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.

St. Therese of Lisieux, Prayer for Priests