Chaplet of Reparation Prayer of Thanksgiving for Priests and Praise for a Priest Prayed on a regular . Lord , You have chosen Fr. ( ) from Incline (+) unto my aid, O God; O Lord, among us and sent him out to proclaim make haste to help me. Glory be to the Your word and to act in Your name. For so Father and to the Son and to the Holy great a gift to Your Church, we give You Spirit As it was in the beginning, is now, praise and thanksgiving. We ask You to fill and ever shall be, World without end. him with the fire of Your love, that his Prayers for a Holy (On each of the Our Father beads): ministry may reveal Your presence in the Eternal Father, I offer Thee Church. Since He is an earthen vessel, we Hour for a Priest The Precious Blood of Thy Beloved Son, pray that Your power shine out through his Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb weakness. In his afflictions let him never without blemish or spot, in reparation be crushed; in his doubts never despair; in for my sins and for the sins of all Thy temptation never be destroyed; in priests. persecution never abandoned. (On each of the beads): Inspire him through prayer to live each day By thy Precious Blood, O Jesus, Purify the mystery of Your dying and rising. In and sanctify thy priests. time of weakness send him Your Holy (In place of the Glory be to the Father): Spirit, and help him to praise Your heavenly O Father, from whom all fatherhood in Father and pray for poor sinners. By the heaven and on earth is named, Have same Holy Spirit, put Your words on his lips mercy on all thy priests, and wash them and Your love in his heart, to bring good in the Blood of the Lamb. news to the poor and healing to the Prayer for Generosity brokenhearted. And may the gift of Mary, Alma Your mother, to the disciple whom You Lord Jesus, teach me to be generous; loved, be Your gift to every priest. Grant teach me to serve you as you deserve, Loving Mother of the Redeemer, that she who formed You in her human to give and not to count the cost, gate of heaven, star of the sea, image, may form him in Your Divine image, to fight and not to heed the wounds, assist your people who have fallen, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, to the to toil and not to seek for rest, yet strive to rise again. glory of God the Father. Amen. to labor and not to seek reward, To the wonderment of nature save that of knowing that I do your will. you bore your Creator, Amen. yet remained a virgin after as before. You who received Gabriel's -St. Ignatius of Loyola joyful greeting have pity on us poor sinners. Amen. Efficacious to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible Prayer for Priests not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity Sacred Heart of Jesus on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say , O Jesus, eternal Priest, to you, ask and you will receive, seek and Your tender Mother and ours. keep your priests within the shelter you will find, knock and it will be opened Hail, Holy Queen… of Your Sacred Heart, to you.” Behold, I knock, I seek and I ask St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us. where none may touch them. for the grace of the physical needs of the priest Keep unstained their anointed Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be… hands, which daily touch Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your Sacred Body. I place all my trust in You. II. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say Keep unsullied their lips, daily to you, if you ask anything of the Father in purpled with your Precious Blood. My name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in Your name, I ask Keep pure and unearthly their the Father for the grace of hearts, sealed with the sublime the emotional needs of the priest mark of the priesthood. Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be… Sacred Heart of Jesus, Let Your holy love surround them I place all my trust in You. and shield them from the world’s contagion. Bless their labors with III. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say abundant fruit and may the souls to to you, heaven and earth will pass away whom they minister be their joy and but my words will not pass away." consolation here on earth and in Encouraged by Your infallible words I now heaven their beautiful and ask for the grace of everlasting crown. the spiritual needs of the priest Our Father....Hail Mary....Glory Be… -St. Thérèse of Lisieux Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.