![]() ![]() John Vianney For Parish Priestsĭear Saint John Vianney, your childhood dream was to be a Priest, to win souls for God. Return to us in the person of Thy Priests: truly live in them act through them and pass once more through the world, teaching, forgiving, comforting, sacrificing and renewing the sacred bonds of love between the Heart of God and the heart of man. Consider the throngs of the poor, the hungry, the ignorant, and the feeble who groan in their abandoned condition. Divine Redeemer of souls, behold how great is the multitude of those who still sleep in the darkness of error, of those unfaithful sheep who stray to the edge of the precipice. Live in them, transform them into Thee: make them, by Thy grace, fit instruments of Thy mercy: do Thou act in them and through them and grant that they may become wholly one with Thee by their faithful imitation of Thy virtues: and in Thy Name and by the strength of Thy spirit, may they do the works which Thou didst accomplish for the salvation of the world. “O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, Divine Sacrificer, vouchsafe to pour forth upon Thy Priests continual living streams of infinite love. “O Jesus, humbled in the Eucharist to be the source and center of charity of the Catholic Church, and the strength of souls, we offer Thee our prayers, our actions, our sufferings on behalf of Thy Priests, to the end that each may behold the wider extension of the Kingdom of Thy Sacred Heart.” By governing with fidelity those entrusted to his care, may he build Your Church as a sign of the salvation of the world.” Give him a spirit of courage and right judgment, a spirit of knowledge and love. you have chosen your servant, Bishop Thomas J. “God, Eternal Shepherd, You tend Your Church in many ways and rule us with love. “O God, the Pastor and Ruler of all the faithful, look down, in Your mercy, upon Your servant Pope Francis, whom You have appointed to preside over Your Church and grant, we beseech You, that both by word and example, he may edify all those under his charge so that with the flock entrusted to him, he may arrive at length unto life everlasting. Be Thou his light, his strength, and his consolation.” “Lord Jesus, shelter our Holy Father, Pope Francis, under the protection of Thy Sacred Heart.
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