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<\/a><\/p>\nO Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of your sacred heart, where none may touch them.<\/p>\n
Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch your sacred body.<\/p>\n
Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your precious blood.<\/p>\n
Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of your priesthood.<\/p>\n
Let your holy love surround them, and shield them from the world\u2019s contagion.<\/p>\n
Bless their labors with abundant fruit,<\/p>\n
and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here on earth,<\/p>\n
and in heaven, their everlasting crown.<\/p>\n
Mary, Mother of Priests, pray for priests and vocations to the priesthood.<\/p>\n
\u2014 St. Therese of Lisieux<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think we need this now, more than ever.\u00a0 I found this on a prayer card they give out at St. John the Evangelist Church in New York City\u2026 O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of your sacred heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42,52],"tags":[11194,11200],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","category-priests","category-vocations","tag-priests","tag-vocations"],"yoast_head":"\n
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