priest

Prayer for Our Priests Heavenly Father, I come to pray to you for our priests: our priests working in parishes or residence of retired people, our priests teaching at the seminary or at the university, our priests working in the diocesan offices, our priests in foreign missions, our religious priests. Heavenly Father, I glorify your holy name, I praise you, I thank you for these men whom you have given us as spiritual leaders, these men responsible for our Christian communities, our parish activities. Heavenly Father, I know that, just like us, they have their questions, their doubts, their hesitations. They say before their ordination and again after it: "Do I really have this vocation?" "Am I truly at the right place?" "Will I be able to preach, for I am shy?" "Shall I be able to pray my divine office with the load of activities?" "Am I not following a human ambition?" Be with them, Father, support them, giv...

A Parent's Prayer for their Children O Heavenly Father, I commend my children unto You.  You are their God and Father;  and mercifully supply whatever is wanting in me  through frailty or negligence.  Strengthen them to overcome the corruptions of the world,  to resist all solicitations to evil,  whether from within or without;  and deliver them from the secret snares of the enemy.  Pour Your grace into their hearts,  and confirm and multiply in them the gifts of Your Holy Spirit,  that they may daily grow in grace  and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;  and so, faithfully serving You here,  may come to rejoice in Your presence hereafter. ____ Fillipino