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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 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 lives 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 and human frailty. Keep them as spotless as the host which daily they caress: their every thought and word and deed, deign, dearest Lord to bless. + Impramatur: ID Card. Dougherty, Arch. Of Philadelphia. |
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