Have pity in particular, dear Lord, on all those priests who are spent and weary, discouraged, or desolate, or who labor under some special trial, temptation, or sorrow. Visit them with Thine efficacious graces and consolations. Kindle their hearts with the fire that burns in Thine own Most Sacred Heart. Teach them the methods of Thine apostolate, as Thou dist teach the favored twelve whom Thou didst choose to be Thine apostles.
Keep them from sin, comfort them in every affliction, give them health and vigor of body and soul, that they may do effectively the work Thou givest to them. Remind us to pray for them often. Help us to cooperate with their efforts. Make it the ambition of every Catholic to aid, by prayers and words and deeds, in the apostolic work of saving souls, the greatest of all human activities, and which drew Thy Divine Majesty from heaven to earth.
Grant, sweet Jesus, that all who are Thy priests on earth may come, holy and pure, to the glory of Thy heavenly kingdom, with all their faithful flocks, to rejoice in the vision of Thine Eternal Loveliness, Who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, livest and reignest, one, all-loving God, world without end.
Amen.