PRAYER FOR THE RIGHT SPIRIT OF CHRIST'S PRIESTHOODOn this joyful day, please join me in praying this prayer for my Jesuit brothers--Reverends Javy Alpasa, Francis Alvarez, Jason Dy, Ody Dy, Frank Savadera, and Robbie Sian--who today, because of God's mercy and faithfulness, receive, for the sake of the Church, the precious gift of ordination to the priesthood.
"Grant us, above all, the grace of prayer, and make us love You, O Jesus. What are we without You? Lost. We can only have You if we make You, by love and prayer, again and again and more and more the focus of our heart.
If You want us to be Your priests, then grant us, O Lord, that gift without which we cannot truly be Your priests. Grant us the grace of prayer, of collection, of inwardness, stop us when we want to run away from You in our distraction and absent-mindedness; bring us crazy people back to You, if need be by the prick of pain, the bitterness of heart and of distress.
Give us just one more gift: the grace to pray truly and become daily more. When we pray, we are and remain in fellowship with You, then we shall increasingly become what we are and ought to be according to Your will: Your disciples, Your apostles, Your priests, the witnesses of Your truth and the dispenser of Your mysteries."
--Karl Rahner, SJ
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