{"id":3697,"date":"2009-10-11T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/grant-such-holiness-to-your-pr\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T06:42:24","slug":"grant-such-holiness-to-your-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/grant-such-holiness-to-your-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Such Holiness to Your Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/anthony4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/anthony4-thumb-300x414-4764.jpg\" alt=\"anthony4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a>The painting is by the so-called Master of the <em>Osservanza<\/em> and dates from around 1440. Notice the lovely chasuble of the priest and the noble simplicity of the altar. The young man to the left is none other than our father among the saints, Antony of Egypt. The scene depicts his conversion. The artist has it taking place in the cathedral of Siena!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Here is another prayer for priests that one might say each day. It will be included in the prayerbook that is still in preparation.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nA Daily Prayer for Priests <\/strong><br \/>\nO Lord Jesus Christ, Who commanded<br \/>\nthat the men whom You called and set apart<br \/>\nfor the service of Your holy altars,<br \/>\nshould themselves be holy:<br \/>\ngrant such holiness to Your priests<br \/>\nthat in them Your Father may take delight,<br \/>\nand Your Bride, the Church, find consolation.<br \/>\nSend the promised Paraclete upon them<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 do not love You;<br \/>\nto keep them pure amidst the impure;<br \/>\nand to keep them for Yourself<br \/>\namidst those who are as yet not Yours<br \/>\n&#8211; but whom You, O gentle Shepherd,<br \/>\ncame to seek and to save.<br \/>\nThrough the intercession of our most gracious Lady and Queen,<br \/>\nYour Mother, Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin,<br \/>\ngive them grace so to serve You<br \/>\namong all the changes and chances of this passing world<br \/>\nthat, at the hour of their death, they may be ready<br \/>\nto enter with You, O Eternal High Priest,<br \/>\ninto the sanctuary not made by human hands,<br \/>\nwhere You live for ever<br \/>\nto make intercession for us,<br \/>\nand reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\none God, world without end.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The painting is by the so-called Master of the Osservanza and dates from around 1440. Notice the lovely chasuble of the priest and the noble simplicity of the altar. The young man to the left is none other than our father among the saints, Antony of Egypt. The scene depicts his conversion. The artist has <\/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":[33,70,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priesthood","category-spiritual-motherhood-for-priests","category-year-of-the-priest-2009-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-XD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24219,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/24219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}