A Powerful Prayer for Priests and Holy Vocations

Our spiritual fathers face immense spiritual battles as they shepherd souls and bring us the Holy Sacraments. This powerful prayer for priests is a beautiful way to intercede for our pastors, asking that they be set ablaze with the fire of God’s love and filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. By lifting up our Catholic priests in daily prayer, we ask God to grant them deep holiness, interior peace, and the zeal needed to guide the flock of Christ with wisdom and courage.

Asking Jesus to Bless our Priests

This prayer for priests can be found in the Manual for Eucharistic Adoration, published by the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration and should be prayed while in adoration Christians should pray this prayer for priests while in adoration.

Priests are in need of our prayers of protection. Priests have been consecrated by the sacrament of Holy Orders to act in the Person of Christ as part of their ministry to the faithful. Click here to dedicate a Holy Hour of Adoration for priests with various I Am Jesus website prayers on one page.

Prayer for Priests to Be Filled with Fire of God’s Love

Lord Jesus,

You have chosen your priests from among us and sent them out to proclaim Your Word and to act in Your name. For so great a gift to Your Church, we give You praise and thanksgiving. We ask you to fill them with the fire of Your love, that their ministry may reveal Your presence in the Church.

Since they are earthen vessels, we pray that Your power shine out through their weakness. In their afflictions let them never be crushed; in their doubts never despair; in temptation never be destroyed; in persecution never abandoned. Inspire them through prayer to live each day the mystery of Your dying and rising. In times of weakness send them Your Spirit, and help them to praise Your heavenly Father and pray for poor sinners.

By the same Holy Spirit, put Your words on their lips and Your love in their hearts, to bring good news to the poor and healing to the brokenhearted. And may the gift of Mary Your mother, to the disciple whom You love, be your gift to every priest. Grant that she who formed You in her human image may, be her intercession, help to form them in Your divine image by the power of the Holy Spirit, to the glory of God the Father.

Amen

To expand your prayers for the clergy, consider spending time with our Holy Hour for Priests. You can also find more spiritual support for our pastors in our Prayers for Priests index.