“Behold the wood of the Cross on which hung the Savior of the world.”
One Bread, One Body
O Jesus, I implore Your divine assistance for Your faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priest; for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your lonely and desolate priests; for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for Your priests in purgatory. But above all, I commend to You the priests dearest to me; the priest who baptized me; the priest who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way.
O Jesus, keep them all close to Your Sacred Heart, and bless them abundantly in time and eternity.
Amen
Please continue to pray for an end to abortion and the protection and sanctity of all human life.
Father in heaven, we thank you for the precious gift of human life.
Bless our families and extend Your hand of protection to those threatened by abortion, and save them from its destructive power.
Grant that we so cherish human life that we shall always respect and defend it. We promise to use the gift of life with gratitude and care at all times and in every place.
We make this prayer to You, our loving Father, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Life, in the Holy Spirit, Lord and Giver of Life, and the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, who came that we may have life in abundance. Amen