{"id":3328,"date":"2008-08-06T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/give-us-priests-who-are-on-fir\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T11:32:18","slug":"give-us-priests-who-are-on-fir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/give-us-priests-who-are-on-fir\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Us Priests Who Are On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/1001%20Therese%20sacristan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1001 Therese sacristan.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/1001 Therese sacristan-thumb-267x439.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"439\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOur friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpriest.com\/home.php\">WorldPriest<\/a> offer the following reflection on this prayer dear to Saint Th&eacute;r&egrave;se of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face:<br \/>\n<em>Saint Th&eacute;r&egrave;se&#8217;s devotion to the Priesthood is to be found in all its fullness in a prayer which she used to say daily and which she learnt off by heart; this is all the more remarkable in view of her known distaste for lengthy set forms of prayer.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nO Holy Father,<br \/>\nmay the torrents of love<br \/>\nflowing from the sacred wounds of Thy Divine Son<br \/>\nbring forth priests like unto the beloved disciple John<br \/>\nwho stood at the foot of the Cross;<br \/>\npriests: who as a pledge of Thine own most tender love<br \/>\nwill lovingly give Thy Divine Son to the souls of men.<br \/>\nMay Thy priests be faithful guardians of Thy Church,<br \/>\nas John was of Mary, whom he received into his house.<br \/>\nTaught by this loving Mother who suffered so much on Calvary,<br \/>\nmay they display a mother&#8217;s care and thoughtfulness<br \/>\ntowards Thy children.<br \/>\nMay they teach souls to enter into close union with Thee<br \/>\nthrough Mary who, as the Gate of Heaven,<br \/>\nis specially the guardian of the treasures of Thy Divine Heart.<br \/>\nGive us priests who are on fire, and who are true children of Mary,<br \/>\npriests who will give Jesus to souls<br \/>\nwith the same tenderness and care<br \/>\nwith which Mary carried the Little Child of Bethlehem.<br \/>\nMother of sorrows and of love,<br \/>\nout of compassion for Thy beloved Son,<br \/>\nopen in our hearts deep wells of love,<br \/>\nso that we may console Him<br \/>\nand give Him a generation of priests formed in thy school<br \/>\nand having all the tender thoughtfulness of thine own spotless love.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at WorldPriest offer the following reflection on this prayer dear to Saint Th&eacute;r&egrave;se of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face: Saint Th&eacute;r&egrave;se&#8217;s devotion to the Priesthood is to be found in all its fullness in a prayer which she used to say daily and which she learnt off by heart; this <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priesthood","category-saints","category-writings-from-tulsa-2008-2012"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-RG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}