Inihahandog ko ang panalanging ito sa mga taong umiba ng landas para maglingkod sa Diyos bilang mga pari. Mga taong katulad din nating may damdamin, minsan mahina at nangangailangan ng suporta at panalangin.
Kay Fr. Jade Licuanan, Fr. Chito ng Kalakbay at Katoto, Fr. Fiel, sa magiging pari sa Dec. 7 na si Fr. Jhoen a.k.a Rev. Siopao, sa isang kaibigan paring ayaw magpakilala, sa aking mga nakasamang mga pari, sa mga paring nagmimisa sa simbahang aking pinupuntahan at sa lahat ng kaparian at magiging pari pa lamang. Iniaalay ko po ang ilang minuto sa bawat araw ang ipanalangin ang inyong kabutihan at kabanalan para makapag lingkod pa kayo ng matagal sa Diyos at sa bayan.
Prayer for Priest
by John Cardinal O’Connor
Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs. We pray for them in THEIR needs.
We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood.
Yet we know, too, that they are one with us and share in our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement as we are, needing to be ministered to as we do, to be consoled and forgiven as we do. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings, our lives, our faith.
We ask that You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on the way to Emmaus: Your presence in their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their spirits. And let them see You face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread.
We pray to You, O Lord, through Mary the mother of all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen
O loving 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 received to carry on the work of Christ in the world which needs them so much. Be their comfort, be their joy, be their strength, and especially help them to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy. Amen.
