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Prayer for Priests to St. Jean Vianney Dear Saint Jean Vianney, your childhood dream was to be a priest, to win souls for God. You endured years of toil and humiliation to attain the priesthood. You became a priest truly after God’s own heart, outstanding in humility, poverty, prayer and mortification, totally devoted to the service of God’s people. The Church has exalted you as model and patron saint of all parish priests, trusting that your example and prayers will help them to live up to the high dignity of their vocation to be faithful servants of God’s people, to be perfect imitators of Christ the Savior, Who came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. Pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His own heart. Pray for all the priests under your patronage, that they may be worthy representatives of Christ the Good Shepherd. May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance. May they be examples of humility...

ShareThis O God, who by means of the most glorious Mother of Your Son was pleased to give new children to your Church for the deliverance of Christ's faithful from the power of those who do not believe in the One True God; grant, we beseech You, that we who love and honor her as the foundress of so great work may, by her merits and intercession, be ourselves delivered from all sin and from the bondage of the evil one. Through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.  Blogs commenting Fr. Jessie's post