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A Prayer for Priests by John Cardinal O'Connor, March 1995. Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for Our needs. We pray for them in their needs. We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, annointed them, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood. Yet we know, too, that they are one with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement, as are we, needing to be ministered to, as do we, to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings, our lives, our faith. We ask that You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on th...

Prex is an acronym for Parish Renewal Experience. A movement in the parish hoping to enliven the faith of the faithful for a more fruitful relationship with the Lord and the more active participation to the parish church activities. The movement had suffered some setbacks and one of them was the discontinuation of the said program for a period of four (5) years. When I arrives they sought my audience and presented that they want to revive the movement. I told them it is very hard to revive it that to start a new organization. Since they believe on the fruits of the prex class beforehand. they insisted that it will be beneficial for the parish. This is their second class since it was been revived. I usually give the first talk which is "The road to Emmaus", the 10th talk which is the "Evangelization" and Confession. Blogs commenting Fr. Jessie's post Technorati icon">