A prayer for priestly transformation

O Jesus, eternal High Priest, divine Sacrificer, You Who in an unspeakable burst of love for men, Your brethren, did cause the Christian priesthood to spring forth from Your Sacred Heart, vouchsafe to pour forth upon Your priests continual living streams of infinite love.

Live in them, transform them into You; make them, by Your grace, fit instruments of Your mercy; act in them and through them, and grant that they may become wholly one with You by their faithful imitation of Your virtues; and in Your Name and by the strength of Your Spirit, may they do the works which You accomplished for the salvation of the world.

Divine Redeemer of souls, behold how great is the multitude of those who still sleep in the darkness of error; reckon up the number of those unfaithful sheep who stray to the edge of the precipice; consider the throngs of the poor, the hungry, the ignorant, and the feeble who grown in their abandoned condition.

Return to us in the person of Your priests; truly live again 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. Amen.

The Raccolta, no. 659

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