Year of the Priest links updated

Several updates have been posted to Links for the Year of the Priest. Don’t miss the Year for Priests logo. When printed, it makes an excellent coloring page.

This week we pray for St. Louis Archbishop-elect Carlson who will be installed on Wednesday. Please remember to pray for all our priests.

A Prayer for Priests
by John Joseph Cardinal Carberry
Archbishop of St. Louis 1968-1979

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests.
Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope, and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly life.
In their loneliness, comfort them.
In their sorrows, strengthen them.
In their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that the soul is purified and show them that they are needed by the Church;
they are needed by souls;
they are needed for the work of redemption.

O lovely Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your sons who are close to you because of their priestly ordination and because of the power which they have recieved to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs them so much.

Be their comfort;
be their joy;
be their strength;
and especially help them to live and defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.