The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

For the bishop and priests of the Raleigh, NC Diocese.

Devotions

God will send apostles chosen for this special work, priests without name or reputation, but strong in strength of faith and holiness of life; these He will send, bearing a cross of wood into the midst of nations invaded and desolated by the demon of pride and the lust of greed and sensuality: Go, ye swifts angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces, to a terrible people, to a nation expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

-- Rev. Fr. P Millet, S.J.


A Prayer for Priests

Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord,
Keep them, for they are thine
Thy priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.

Keep them, Thou Knowest, dearest Lord
The World - the flesh are strong,
And Satan spreads a thousand snares
To lead them into wrong.

Keep them, for they are in the world
Though from the world apart,
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure,
Shelter them in Thy heart,

Keep them, and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.

Keep them, and O! remember Lord
They have no one but Thee
Yet they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.

Keep them as spotless as the Host,
That daily, they caress
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.

Keep them, this is my lifeʼs one prayer
Thy victim let me be,
That none of these, Thy chosen ones,
Be ever lost to Thee.

F.T. in Catholic Record, The Catholic Columbian, Vo. 39, Numb 41. Oct. 9, 1914

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