{"id":25474,"date":"2010-04-11T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/praying-for-priests-as-an-act\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:16:00","slug":"praying-for-priests-as-an-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/praying-for-priests-as-an-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for priests as an act of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/DSC_0280.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fr Ignacio Ortigas giving a blessing.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/DSC_0280-thumb-250x166-6145.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>O my Jesus, I beg you on behalf of the whole Church:<br \/>\nGrant it love and the light of the your Spirit, and give power to the words of<br \/>\npriests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to<br \/>\nyou, O Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; \"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Lord, give us holy priests; you yourself maintain them in<br \/>\nholiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of your mercy<br \/>\naccompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil&#8217;s traps and snares<br \/>\nwhich are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power<br \/>\nof your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the<br \/>\nsanctity of priests, for you can do all things.&nbsp;Amen.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Saint John Vianney, pray for our priests.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O my Jesus, I beg you on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of the your Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to you, O Lord. Lord, give us holy priests; you yourself maintain them in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/praying-for-priests-as-an-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Praying for priests as an act of Mercy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,74],"tags":[1818,2090,32104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}