Why are we hated by so many for loving our Lord? Because there are many who refuse to face reality.  So many do not know Him.

“There can be no Eucharist without the priesthood, just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist” – St. John Paul II

This Holy Thursday, I pray for our Priests and for the laity to pray for our Priests, to look deeper into the need for all of them and to seek to understand our Lord in the Eucharist in a more profound way, then one had known before.

Please read St. Pope John Paul II – ECCLESIA DE EUCHARISTIA,  in its relationship to the Church. Also, to pray for vocations to the Priesthood, and for all our Priests today.

A Prayer for Priests
By St. Therese of Lisieux

O Jesus, eternal Priest,
keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart,
where none may touch them.

Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.

Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with your Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood.

Let Your holy love surround them and
shield them from the world’s contagion.

Bless their labors with abundant fruit and
may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and
everlasting crown.

Amen.