Praying the rosary for inner healing

Praying the rosary for inner healing has real effects in many ways, but most of all it brings an inner peace, writes Fr. Dwight Longenecker on Catholic Online.

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Pope: Priests are living witnesses of the power of God at work in our world

"The priest", says the Holy Father in his message to participants in an international spiritual retreat for priests at the French shrine of Ars for the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Mary Vianney, "is called to serve human beings and to give them life in God.

"... He is a man of the divine Word and of all things holy and, today more than ever, he must be a man of joy and hope. To those who cannot conceive that God is pure Love, he will affirm that life is worthy to be lived and that Christ gives it its full meaning because He loves all humankind."

Pope: Priests are Living Witnesses of the Power of God at Work in Our World - Catholic Online

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Prayer for Priestly Vocations

This prayer for raising up ardent, gentle and worthy men to priestly vocations comes from Catholic Online:

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTLY VOCATIONS - Prayers - Catholic Online

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Prayer for a Priest

Here's a prayer you may wish to dedicate to a particular priest, especially for those times when he may be beset by challenges.

PRAYER FOR A PRIEST - Prayers - Catholic Online

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Pope Benedict XVI on the role of the priest

The shortage of priests must not come to be considered as a normal or typical state of affairs for the future, the Holy Father told a group of prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil in Vatican City last week.

In this context, he encouraged the prelates "to combine efforts to encourage new priestly vocations and find the pastors your dioceses need, helping one another so that all of you have better-trained and more numerous priests to support the life of faith and the apostolic mission".

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Pope Benedict XVI: The Role of the Priest is Irreplaceable! - Catholic Online

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A Prayer for Priests

O Holy Father, may the torrents of love flowing from the sacred wounds of Thy Divine Son bring forth priests like unto the beloved disciple John who stood at the foot of the Cross; priests who, as a pledge of Thine own most tender love, will lovingly give Thy Divine Son to the souls of men.

May Thy priests be faithful guardians of Thy Church, as John was of Mary, whom he received into his house. Taught by this loving Mother who suffered so much on Calvary, may they display a mother’s care and thoughtfulness towards Thy children. May they teach souls to enter into close union with Thee through Mary who, as the Gate of Heaven, is specially the guardian of the treasures of Thy Divine Heart.

Give us priests who are on fire, and who are true children of Mary, priests who will give Jesus to souls with the same tenderness and care with which Mary carried the Little Child of Bethlehem.

Mother of sorrows and of love, out of compassion for thy beloved Son, open in our hearts deep wells of love, so that we may console Him and give Him a generation of priests formed in thy school and having all the tender thoughtfulness of thine own spotless love.

Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)