Sister Novena for Priests
Jesus in gratitude we offer to you, the hearts and the minds of all priests most especially those priests we witness with great esteem of your service and of your likeness. With unsurpassed thankfulness we submit the priests who cherish your call. Continue to fill them with grace and all of the benefits of your grace that is, discipline of holiness and church teaching, the encouragement of holiness, and the witness of living the gospel with joy and serenity. Strengthen them, Oh God, in kind and in number.
Renew in each of your chosen sons, the confidence of the bond between the family life and the life of the priesthood uniting with unmistakable clarity the Glory and design of God within the church. We pray in particular and for the guardianship of: St Augustine(The sinner renewed), St Thomas Aquinas(The Doctor of church teaching), St John Bosco (The Pastor) and may all priests that may be held in the bounds of purgatory intercede in this a prayer of protection, this a prayer of gratitude, and this a prayer hope.
(One Our Father, One hail Mary, Glory Be)
We recommend to You:
- the priest dearest to me;
- the priest who baptized me;
- the priest who absolved me from my sins;
- the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion;
- the priest who taught and instructed me;
- all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way.
O Jesus, keep them all close to Your heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen.
We invite also the special affections of St Gabriel the Archangel to our priests.
Litany
- Lord have mercy
- Christ have mercy
- Lord have mercy
- Christ hear us
- Christ graciously hear us
- God the Father of heaven have mercy on us
- God the Son Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us
- God the Holy spirit, have mercy on us.
- Holy Trinity one God, have mercy one us
- Jesus King of Angels, have mercy on us
- Mary Queen of angels, pray for us.
- Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.
- Strength from God, pray for us.
- Teacher of the nations, pray for us.
- Angel of the incarnation, pray for us.
- Messenger of God's revelation, pray for us.
- Bearer of the good news of Redemption, pray for us.
- Faithful ambassador of God to Zechariah and the Virgin Mary, pray for us.
- Faithful servant of the God-man, pray for us.
- Angel of consolation at the saviors agony, pray for us.
- Friend and consoler of the Mother of God, pray for us.
- Guide and helper of St Joseph, pray for us.
- Teacher and support of the prophet Daniel, pray for us.
- Patron of parents and teachers, pray for us.
- Guide to union with Jesus and Mary, pray for us.
- Consoler of those who suffer, pray for us.
- Strength of the weak, pray for us.
- Patron Saint of modern communications, pray for us.
- Lamb of God You take away the sins of the world, spare us oh Lord.
- Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us oh Lord.
- Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world; have mercy on us.
Pray for us, St Gabriel the Archangel
That we made be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Here you can include the names of the priests for whom you are praying.