{"id":3437,"date":"2008-11-28T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/a-prayer-for-priests\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T13:48:55","slug":"a-prayer-for-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/a-prayer-for-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/021pieta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"021pieta.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/021pieta-thumb-220x323.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"323\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>O LORD JESUS CHRIST<\/strong>, Who hast commanded<br \/>\nthat the men whom Thou hast called<br \/>\nand set apart for the service of Thy holy altars,<br \/>\nshould themselves be holy:<br \/>\ngive them such holiness<br \/>\nthat in them Thy Father may take delight<br \/>\nand Thy Bride, the Church, find consolation.<br \/>\nSend Thou upon them the promised Paraclete,<br \/>\nto keep them firm in their faith<br \/>\nin the midst of an unbelieving world;<br \/>\nto keep them ardent in their love<br \/>\namong those that love Thee not;<br \/>\nto keep them pure amidst the impure;<br \/>\nand to keep them Thine amidst those who are as yet not Thine,<br \/>\nbut whom Thou, O gentle Shepherd,<br \/>\ndidst come to seek and to save.<br \/>\nAnd give them grace,<br \/>\nthrough the intercession of our most gracious Lady and Queen,<br \/>\nThy Mother, Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin,<br \/>\nso to serve Thee<br \/>\namong all the changes and chances of this passing world,<br \/>\nthat hereafter they may be ready<br \/>\nto enter in with Thee, O Eternal High Priest,<br \/>\nto the sanctuary not made by human hands<br \/>\nwhere Thou livest for ever to make intercession for us,<br \/>\nand reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost,<br \/>\none God, world without end. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who hast commanded that the men whom Thou hast called and set apart for the service of Thy holy altars, should themselves be holy: give them such holiness that in them Thy Father may take delight and Thy Bride, the Church, find consolation. Send Thou upon them the promised Paraclete, to <\/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":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers-of-mine","category-priesthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Tr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437"}],"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=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}