Monday Musings - Our Priests Need and Deserve Our Support!

Truth be told, too many of us take our priests for granted. Satan has his sights on them. He attacks and seeks to destroy their vocations. How our beloved priests need and deserve our prayerful support!

Yet, we do not pray for them as we ought. That has got to change. Thankfully, there are a number of efforts underway to correct that failure.

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I had the privilege of attending A Holy Hour in Honor of the Priesthood held on August 4, 2016 in Syracuse, New York. This occurred on the feast day of St. John Marie Vianney, patron saint of priests. The Holy Hour was sponsored by the Martin Society – whose mission is “to pray and support Priests in their vocation of service to the Catholic Church”.

A special friend, who is the mother of a priest, offered an opening reflection that evening. I felt it should be shared with an audience beyond those who were blessed to be there that night. She has graciously given me permission to share it here.

May the words of this mother whose love for priests knows no bounds, stir you to pray daily for our priests – ALL of our priests, without exception.

I will conclude this post by sharing the prayer we all offered that night – quite appropriate for daily recitation. Cut it out and use it!

After thanking the sponsors of the Holy Hour this is what Kathy Kreinheder had to say:

“It is good that we are here.

It is good because our priests need us - just as we need them. St. John Vianney- whose feast we celebrate today- said,  “Without the priests the death and passion of our Lord would be of no use. It is the priest who continues the work of redemption on earth.”

It is no surprise then that one saint after another has declared that the devil’s principal target on earth is the Catholic priest. This has been the fact since the days of the early church -  but now the challenge seems greater and the stakes seem higher.