Hi everyone! We’re up to nine diocesan calendars! Keep them coming!
This week’s priests are:
SUNDAY 9/15 Augustine Chumo
MONDAY 9/16 Matthew Clark
TUESDAY 9/17 Clifford Peter
WEDNESDAY 9/18 William Coffas
THURSDAY 9/19 Inactive & Sabbatical Priests
FRIDAY 9/20 Michael Conboy
SATURDAY 9/21 Daniel Condon
Our prayer: Prayer of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests; for your unfaithful and tepid priests; for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for your tempted priests; for your lonely and desolate priests; for your young priests; for your dying priests; for the souls of your priests in purgatory.
But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me; the priests who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially …).
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen.
Novena to St. Augustine
Tomorrow we start our next novena. I know there are many times we’ve each felt that our faith was under attack, whether from others or from within ourselves. This new novena is to one of the strongest defenders of the faith, St. Augustine.
Here’s the link: https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-augustine-novena.
Have a blessed week!
Laurie & Elena
An Invitation
We would like to invite you to join us in praying for all of our priests and clergy. Please feel free to forward this to any others that you think may want to participate. Regardless of how you heard about us, please send a text to (607)259-1529 or an email to prayers4priests@gmail.com if you are interested in joining us. I’ll be sending an email or text at least weekly with prayers, novenas, etc., so let me know how you would prefer to receive notifications
We are a small informal prayer group made up of faithful Catholics, praying for the sanctification of our Church and our clergy, both here and abroad. We are doing this in a few different ways.
We will be praying a series of novenas, beginning every other Wednesday. I’ll send a notification for each one.
Some of us will be fasting on Thursdays for our priests. It would also be wonderful if some of us could get together once a month to pray a Rosary or a Divine Mercy Chaplet. We could consider sending cards of encouragement and gratitude to our local priests for their day on the calendar as well.
We are open to any and all suggestions that will help strengthen our Church and our current priests, and will increase new vocations to the priesthood.
Let the praying begin!
God bless,
Laurie Desmarais & Elena Cambio
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining us!
Please be patient as we begin our journey of praying for our priests.
Wherever two or more are gathered (even if it is a virtual gathering),
Jesus is with us.
