St. John Eudes II
Dr. Pius Parsch takes today’s feast as an opportunity to reflect on the priesthood. Although Christ is the true and only Priest, the one Mediator through prayer and the sacraments, He shares His office with the Church, His mystical body and bride. Therefore St. Peter refers to Christians as ‘a royal priesthood’. There is, moreover, a consecrated priesthood to dispense the mysteries of God and act as mediator of divine life. The priest is a spiritual father by conferring divine life through the sacraments. He is a second Christ because he acts in His name and person, breaking the twofold bread of instruction and life, the word of God and Holy Eucharist. Hence the sublimity of the mission and office of a priest. Priests must therefore educate the faithful in the Scriptures and Liturgy, must give to them the Bible, the Missal and the Breviary. Only then can they fulfill their priestly office.
O Jesus, eternal High Priest, divine Sacrificer, Thou who in an unspeakable burst of love for men, Thy brethren, didst cause the Christian priesthood to spring forth from Thy Sacred Heart, vouchsafe to pour forth upon Thy pirests continual living streams of infinite love.
Live in them, transform them into Thee; make them, by Thy grace, fit instruments of Thy mercy; do Thou act in them and through them, and grant, that they may become wholly one with Thee by their faithful imitation of Thy virtues; and, in Thy Name and by the strength of Thy spirit, may they do the works which Thou didst accomplish for the salvation of the world.
Divine Redeemer of souls, behold how great is the multitude of those who still sleep in the darkness of error; reckon up the number of those unfaithful sheep who stray to the edge of the precipice; consider the throngs of the poor, the hungry, the ignorant and the feeble who groan in their abandoned condition.
Return to us in the person of Thy priests; truly live again in them; act through them and pass once more through the world, teaching, forgiving, comforting, sacrificing and reneweing the sacred bonds of love between the Heart of God and the heart of man. Amen
(An indulgence of 300 days once a day. A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions for the daily recitation of this prayer for one month.)
O Jesus, eternal High Priest, divine Sacrificer, Thou who in an unspeakable burst of love for men, Thy brethren, didst cause the Christian priesthood to spring forth from Thy Sacred Heart, vouchsafe to pour forth upon Thy pirests continual living streams of infinite love.
Live in them, transform them into Thee; make them, by Thy grace, fit instruments of Thy mercy; do Thou act in them and through them, and grant, that they may become wholly one with Thee by their faithful imitation of Thy virtues; and, in Thy Name and by the strength of Thy spirit, may they do the works which Thou didst accomplish for the salvation of the world.
Divine Redeemer of souls, behold how great is the multitude of those who still sleep in the darkness of error; reckon up the number of those unfaithful sheep who stray to the edge of the precipice; consider the throngs of the poor, the hungry, the ignorant and the feeble who groan in their abandoned condition.
Return to us in the person of Thy priests; truly live again in them; act through them and pass once more through the world, teaching, forgiving, comforting, sacrificing and reneweing the sacred bonds of love between the Heart of God and the heart of man. Amen
(An indulgence of 300 days once a day. A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions for the daily recitation of this prayer for one month.)
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