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Prayer For The Sanctification of 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 by 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; to your loving 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 absolved me from my sins, the priests at whose mass...

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS Keep them, I pray, dearest Lord, Keep them, for they are yours -  Your priests whose lives burn out before Your consecrated shrine.  Keep them, for they are in the world, Though from the world apart;  When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, - Shelter them in your heart.  Keep them, and comfort them in hours Of loneliness and pain,  When all their life of sacrifice For souls seems but in vain.  Keep them, and O remember, Lord, They have no one but you,  Yet they have only human hearts, With human frailty.  Keep them as spotless as the Host. That daily they caress;  Their every thought and word and deed, Choose, dearest Lord, to bless. --- Thanks to Anthony Catholic Chuch