Quick Links: Letter, Hungry for More, Moral Authority, Making the Connection, Further Reading, Next Steps

Hungry for More

In the biblical world up to Jesus and the Kingdom He established in His Church, the great purpose for man and woman made in the image of God was “to be fruitful and multiply, and to fill the earth and subdue it.” Like God, we are creators who are made to be creative and productive. God commissioned Israel as a nation to be the platform from which He would reach out to all the nations, making evident the goodness and righteousness of God, bringing glory to His name. To fulfill this great purpose, they were expected to become like God through obedience to His law, and be faithful to the covenant that bound them to YHWH. They failed; because they were not converted themselves, God could not convert the world through them.

Despite Israel’s failure, God used the nation as a platform for the Messiah they were looking for. Jesus came to fulfill the prophecies and Scripture, including those very prophecies of the Kingdom spreading throughout the world. The Church succeeded where old Israel failed, and now we have a completely new order. The Kingdom certainly spreads through procreation, but more essentially through the Gospel. Jesus, as we have established many times in Beams, empowers us through the Holy Spirit to attain self-mastery and proclaim the Kingdom by word and deed. Marriage, as holy and important as it is, is no longer the only way to participate in spreading the Kingdom.

The Joy of Being Single like Jesus

In our culture we do a lot with our bodies, both good (e.g. exercise, eating well) and bad (abuse), but we do not know what they are for. Paul tells us that we need to do the very same thing with our bodies as Jesus did with His; offer it up as a sacrifice. Jesus, of course, offered His up unto death, and perhaps some of us will be called to martyrdom, but we all should be offering our bodies as a “living sacrifice.” Up to the time of Jesus, every pious person, Jew or gentile, offered up animal bodies for sacrifice. Because of Jesus’ sacrifice made once for all, the killing of animals is made obsolete; Christ’s sacrifice is sufficient, and we are invited to self-gift ourselves as a living sacrifice to God and to others. Our bodies are no longer our own to do with what we want.

If we are called to the married state, we self-gift ourselves to our spouses sexually, but also to Christ and His Church with our whole persons, spiritually and physically. If we are called to the single state, we are free, like Jesus and Paul, to self-gift ourselves, body and spirit, to Jesus and His Kingdom. The advent of Christ and His Kingdom transformed Adam’s initial state of “original solitude,” which was “not good,” into a state of intimate union. Celibacy for the Kingdom is, in fact, an “eschatological choice” birthed out of a motivation of conformity to Christ. An “eschatological choice” means that we anticipate now what we all will be in the future when the Kingdom is fulfilled in its entirety. Procreation is a function now in this life; not a function in heaven. But our sexuality is essential to our personhood both now and in our resurrected bodies. Although we know that there is no marriage in heaven as we experience it in this life, our sexuality is necessary to our humanity, made in the image of God. What this might look like, we have no idea.

This is behind the requirement for celibate priests in the Latin Church as the norm.

CCC 1579 All the ordained ministers of the Latin Church, with the exception of permanent deacons, are normally chosen from among men of faith who live a celibate life and who intend to remain celibate “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.” Called to consecrate themselves with undivided heart to the Lord and to “the affairs of the Lord,” they give themselves entirely to God and to men. Celibacy is a sign of this new life to the service of which the Church’s minister is consecrated; accepted with a joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God.

There are many who believe this requirement of celibacy removes priests from being able to identify with problems of married life. Though this may be true to some extent, a celibate priest, through humble, relational wisdom, coupled with an intimate knowledge of Scripture and doctrine, can and must speak with authority into matters of marriage. Saint John Paul II is a classic example of this.

Virility in a celibate priest, devoted completely to the Church, the Bride of Christ, is very attractive and powerful. The mighty men of the Church, for the most part, consecrated themselves, body and soul to the service of God. The same can be said for the amazing and accomplished women who changed their world by completely giving themselves to the call of God in religious life. Virginity is a beautiful and powerful thing. It is chastity, innocence, and purity lived out. Salvation itself is a rediscovered innocence, rising from concupiscence to purity. Satan is jealous of such innocence and purity, and like he did with Eve, does all he can to attack it.

This call comes with the same empowerment the Holy Spirit gave Jesus and St. Paul to attain this high call.

CCC 1619 Virginity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven is an unfolding of baptismal grace, a powerful sign of the supremacy of the bond with Christ and of the ardent expectation of his return, a sign which also recalls that marriage is a reality of this present age which is passing away.

This call to joyful chastity, virginity, and purity is even more important in our culture where sex and sexuality is idolized as the great god or goddess of pleasure. We need to pull the mask off this lie and support our priests and religious in their vocations to radically live a life beyond their own powers in a promiscuous age when many are simply slaves to their own cravings.

1 John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, trans. Michael Waldstein (Boston, Massachusetts: Pauline Books & Media, 2006), 424.

2 Ibid., 399.

Moral Authority

Scripture References

1 Cor 7: 32-35 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Matthew 19: 11-12 But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this precept, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”
1 Cor 7: 20-24 Every one should remain in the state in which he was called. Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity. For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. So, brethren, in whatever state each was called, there let him remain with God.
Mark 12: 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Catechism References

1618 Christ is the center of all Christian life. The bond with him takes precedence over all other bonds, familial or social. From the very beginning of the Church there have been men and women who have renounced the great good of marriage to follow the Lamb wherever he goes, to be intent on the things of the Lord, to seek to please him, and to go out to meet the Bridegroom who is coming. Christ himself has invited certain persons to follow him in this way of life, of which he remains the model:

“For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”

1619 Virginity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven is an unfolding of baptismal grace, a powerful sign of the supremacy of the bond with Christ and of the ardent expectation of his return, a sign which also recalls that marriage is a reality of this present age which is passing away.

2231 Some forgo marriage in order to care for their parents or brothers or sisters, to give themselves more completely to a profession, or to serve other honorable ends. They can contribute greatly to the good of the human family.

2233 Becoming a disciple of Jesus means accepting the invitation to belong to God’s family, to live in conformity with His way of life. “For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Parents should welcome and respect with joy and thanksgiving the Lord’s call to one of their children to follow him in virginity for the sake of the Kingdom in the consecrated life or priestly ministry.

Vatican Documents

Key Vatican documents on the vocation to religious life and celibacy emphasize a total gift of self to Christ, highlighting celibacy as a “gift” fostering availability for ministry and a profound spiritual life.

Core documents include Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (1967) on priestly celibacy and Perfectae Caritatis (1965) on religious life, framing them as eschatological signs and evangelical counsels.

Key Vatican Documents on Celibacy and Priesthood

Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy) – Pope Paul VI (1967): The central document defending and explaining the theological, spiritual, and pastoral reasons for priestly celibacy in the Latin Church.
Pastores Dabo Vobis (I Will Give You Shepherds) – Pope John Paul II (1992): An apostolic exhortation detailing the formation of priests, emphasizing the configuration to Christ through celibacy.
Training for Priestly Celibacy – Congregation for the Clergy (1993): Outlines the necessity of living celibacy as a positive, loving gift that makes a priest more free and available.
Ad Catholici Sacerdotii (On the Catholic Priesthood) – Pope Pius XI (1935): An earlier encyclical upholding the spiritual rationale for a celibate priesthood.

Key Vatican Documents on Religious Life (Consecrated Life)

Perfectae Caritatis (Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life) – Vatican II (1965): Stresses religious life as a unique consecration to God through the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Vita Consecrata (On Consecrated Life) – Pope John Paul II (1996): Examines the vocation of religious men and women and their mission within the Church.
Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago (The Image of the Church as Bride) – Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life (2018): Focuses on the vocation of consecrated virgins and their spiritual marriage to Christ.
Identity and Mission of the Religious Brother in the Church (2018): Discusses the specific vocation of non-ordained religious men.

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Making the Connection

A Real-Life Example

Here we share a story to help people relate to the lessons by example. It may be a story taken from the internet, the tale of a saint, or an illustration taken from among our own church family.

There are two stories provided below, one from a woman’s perspective, and one from a man’s. The woman is a member of a Catholic religious order of nuns, the man is a Catholic priest.

Woman’s Perspective

Celibacy steeped in a whole lot of love

By Sister Sarah Hennessey, F.S.P.A.

The vow of celibacy lets this sister live her best life.

Celibacy steeped in a whole lot of love | VISION Vocation Network for Catholic Religious Life & Priesthood | English

A RECENT Valentine’s Day got me thinking about my own commitment to consecrated celibacy. In a world preoccupied with romantic relationships and sexuality, what does it mean to give that part of myself to Christ? For one thing, I realize my celibacy is steeped in a whole lot of love.

I have been living religious life for 17 years now, and my walk with celibacy has changed. When I was first considering life as a Catholic sister, I met a wise, older sister who told me that I would struggle with each of the vows of poverty, obedience, and consecrated celibacy in their own time. So far she has been right. Just when I thought I was totally comfortable in these vows, life changed and caused me to look at them in a new light. I made vows for a lifetime, but live them out day by day. Consciously or not, every day I choose to be a religious sister; I choose to be celibate.

For me celibacy is about relationship: my relationship with Christ and consequently the shaping of my relationship with everyone else in my life. I love fiercely. I am madly in love with Christ, but I also love like crazy my sisters in community, my friends, and my family. And yes, sometimes I am attracted to someone. Sometimes I find myself riding that wave of emotion on the inside and choosing appropriate boundaries on the outside. Like anyone already in a committed relationship, I can balance between choosing constancy to my commitment while honoring my own feelings. For sure, my celibacy is steeped in a whole lot of love.

A sense of authenticity

Surprisingly, central to my love for Christ is love for myself. For many years, as I struggled with depression, I also doubted my own self-worth. Self-hatred kept me in bondage. Slowly my sisters and my family loved me into life, and one day it all shifted. I stopped hating myself and began the process of learning to love myself. This has probably been the greatest shift of my life and a surprising challenge to my celibacy. Suddenly, the whole world was filled with emotion. I never knew that I could love so much. My feelings were new and raw. My love for God meant more than it ever had before. The change was so strong that I began to ask myself if I truly wanted to be a sister, to be a lifelong celibate.

As I began to love myself more deeply I could feel my love for Christ coming alive, but I also began to mourn the possibility of having my own family. Real waves of sadness washed over me. The loss felt very tangible. Loneliness stirred in my bones. Had depression hidden from me the gravity of the choice that was mine to make? I had to choose celibacy all over again. I had to reach deep into the bottom of my soul and see what is really most important for me. Through prayer, and especially in my precious hours of adoration, my intimacy with Christ is not abstract or theoretical, but instead very concrete and practical. I feel Christ holding and guiding me, keeping me safe. My belonging to Christ is very real to me and sustains me on my harder days.

Why am I celibate today, as I am, with my whole and beautiful self? To answer this question, I look at the wisdom of those who have gone before me. I opened a journal I kept when I was first discerning whether the vows of religious life were right for me. I found some quotes I had recorded that help express my own sense of this vow.

Many if not most persons who are drawn to a celibate life are not celibate because they made a vow of celibacy. Rather, they are drawn to vow celibacy because of a strong internal sense of prior claim. They sense that celibacy is a given of their being . . . The reason for celibacy may always remain difficult to explain . . . But for them, the claim of God on their lives is such that to give their whole embodied selves in sexual union with another person would be a denial of their own inner authenticity and integrity.

—Sister Elaine Prevallet, S.L.

I feel a prior claim. Though it is not always easy, and I sometimes struggle with it, at a certain level I like celibacy. I like how it organizes my life around love without one primary relationship. I like the sense of authenticity and integrity it gives me. I think my vows in religious life help me to be more “Sarah.” I am most fully myself as I live this life. For me, this life is all about relationship—with God, my sisters, and those I meet in ministry.

In the morning I wake up and spend an hour with my God in prayer. Beyond words, in deep silence I feel at home. Over my favorite breakfast of oatmeal, I chat with my sisters about our plans for the day. Sometimes our topics veer into the very profound and we wonder about a sick sister, the future of the community, or some personal issue that we need help with. Before the day has even really started, I can feel those tender tendrils of the holy in the ordinary.

During my ministry I listen to people searching for God in the midst of their daily life. Stresses at work, family crises, and life transitions are the stuff where the Holy Spirit is really present, even when we don’t expect it. I am often amazed at the impact truly feeling like they’ve been heard can have on people. One woman even told me that, after sharing with me, her resting heartbeat on her Fitbit dropped! Calm and peace were finding their way into her life.

After a busy day of work, I cook a healthy meal for the sisters I live with and we catch up on our days. We share evening prayer together, and lift up all the needs of the world on our hearts. We make popcorn on the stove and maybe watch a show together and unwind a bit.

A prior claim

Though not always obvious, my love for Christ is woven into the rhythm of my day. Through the vow of celibacy, I am freed to live out many types of intimacy. I am able to be present to those with whom I minister and my sisters in community, to my friends and family. I am able to listen to the stirrings of my own heart. I enjoy having Christ at the center of my life, which makes me more fully myself.

The words of Sister Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M. also speak to my heart:

Sometimes people ask religious how they persevere in a state of life within a church whose institutional corruption is so clear to them, and in which they may even be the objects of unjust persecution. Whatever answer they give, often the real reason is religious life is not, for them, a commitment to an institution, but a relationship with Christ that, in the final analysis, no authority can touch.

—Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy, and Community in Catholic Religious Life

I love the church and the people of God, but when people wonder how I can choose the lifelong discipline of celibacy within a church that often is so flawed, this is my reason. I am in love with Christ and Christ’s people, with my whole self. I have experienced a prior claim that I cannot ignore, a claim that gives me life to the fullest. I firmly believe there will always be women and men called to celibacy because, like me, others find that their hearts arc toward Christ, our love. And life as a celibate in a religious community, for me—for others who continue to enter this vocation—is steeped in a whole lot of love.

Man’s Perspective

A Priest On Discovering Celibacy

17 Oct 2019

By Fr. Carter Griffin

A Priest On Discovering Celibacy – Catholic Exchange

Growing up Protestant, I never thought I would become a Catholic priest, let alone one who wrote a book on celibacy. Because we moved a lot, my family was involved in various churches over the years and I got to know several of our pastors. My recollection of these men is thoroughly positive; they were kind, engaging, thoughtful people who loved Christ and took my youthful questions and problems seriously. About Catholic priests I knew much less. I knew they were celibate. I had even met a few of them because in some of the countries in which we lived, I attended Catholic schools. Their celibacy was intriguing, something of a curiosity – but it was the curiosity of a detached tourist, not that of an interested inquirer.

Like many conversion stories, my path to Rome began with the witness of faithful Catholics, the reading of good books, and the fits and starts of a life of prayer. I was in college at the time. At the end of one of our sessions, the priest who was giving me instructions said, almost in passing, that perhaps I would join him at the altar one day. At this point, mind you, I was not even Catholic; I wasn’t even sure I wanted to be Catholic; and I was very certain that I would never be a celibate priest. I went away stewing on what he said; I was appalled at the very idea of becoming a priest, and frankly thought it rather brazen of him to suggest it.

So what happened? To put it in a nutshell, my understanding of celibacy changed when my understanding of the priesthood changed. And my understanding of the priesthood changed when my understanding of the Eucharist changed.

As a Protestant, Sunday services make sense only in the context of a community of believers. I was intrigued, then, to learn that it was not so for the Catholic Mass. It is not unusual to enter a cathedral in Europe, for instance, and find a Mass being offered at a side-altar by a priest alone or with a single server. The Holy Sacrifice is always offered for the good of all the faithful, of course, but the Mass occurs whether or not many are able to physically be there. It is the priest who makes the Mass possible because he stands in the place of Jesus the High Priest offering Himself in loving oblation to the Father. That understanding of the Holy Eucharist opened up for me a new way to perceive ordained ministry. The Protestant pastors who served my family were good men but none made any pretensions of standing literally in the place of Christ during Sunday services, or at any other time. The priest, in contrast, is a man who represents Christ with staggering literalism as he feeds his people with the supernatural Bread of Life.

My new Eucharistic perspective on the priesthood soon broadened. The priest is a man who not only feeds his people but who gives new birth in the sacrament of Baptism; who heals sinful wounds in Confession; who preaches the Gospel and teaches with words of instruction, exhortation, encouragement, and correction; and who strives, as a good shepherd, to protect his people from the hungry wolves of sin and error.

Now – what do we call a man who gives life, who provides, who heals, who teaches, and who protects? We typically call priests “Father” in ordinary conversation. It turns out that’s exactly what they are! When I really grasped the priest’s spiritual fatherhood, I finally understood celibacy. The married pastors whom I knew growing up always tried to make time for me, but I never had any doubt who came first in their lives. It was not me, but their wives and children – as well it should have been. When it comes to priests, it’s different. A priest is a spiritual father, a man who belongs unreservedly to his Lord and to His people. He belongs to you and to me. You and I come first in his life.

Where does celibacy fit in?

A father must provide for his family. A priest provides for his spiritual family through the sacraments and especially the Eucharist. Celibacy helps a priest provide these sources of supernatural life with generosity and a more radical availability. Spiritually, too, there is a strong link between the sacrifice of celibacy on the part of a priest and the sacrifice that he offers on the altar. His personal sacrifice echoes and draws strength from the sacrifice of Calvary, which the priest makes present each day in the Holy Mass. His celibacy is an oblation that is united to that of Christ himself, for the good of the Church and the whole world.

A father must teach and guide his family. A priest does so by imparting good doctrine and by his preaching. When celibacy is lived generously, there is a contemplative receptivity to the Lord that St. Paul described as an “undivided heart.” This interior availability can be, should be, highly conducive to the interior life, which overflows into the lives of his hearers. Many Catholics, I suspect, have had the experience of a saintly priest preaching with a certain hidden power.

On faculty at my seminary, years ago, there was an elderly priest whose homilies were invariably simple and rhetorically unexciting. Yet they were among the most memorable and powerful in all my years of formation, because they emerged from a life of profound union with Christ. His homilies were not always naturally inspiring, but they were supernaturally inspired – and that made them truly lifegiving. His celibacy offered him the opportunity and spiritual space to nourish that contemplative union in a way that overflowed into preaching and moved hearts.

Finally, a father must protect his family. A priest-father must protect his spiritual family from both physical and spiritual harm. Celibacy frees a man to defend his people from outside threats, even at the cost of his life, without hesitation. These threats may be physical, as in the case of St. Maximilian Kolbe who offered himself for execution in place of a fellow (married) prisoner. More commonly, the threats are spiritual or moral, and here too celibacy comes to the aid of the priest. It can be hard to preach the whole Gospel, including the unpopular and difficult parts. And yet if a priest is to give his people the tools they need to protect themselves from error, that’s what he must do. Celibacy, when lived well, can free a man from any concern for status, affirmation, advancement, or financial growth, and so free him to protect his people from error even when it is difficult – even when they themselves do not see the danger.

As a young person, I never imagined for a moment that I would one day be a celibate priest. Once I began to understand the nature of the priesthood, however, that it is a vocation of genuine spiritual fatherhood, I realized that I did not need to abandon my natural desires to follow the Lord in this vocation. Now, I cannot see myself as anything but a celibate priest. As a young man I wanted to be a husband and a father. Now, I realize, that’s exactly what I am.

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Next Steps

Ready to Take the Next Step?

How can we commit to sexual self-control? Study, Prayer and Practice!

📖 Study

Study examples of people hearing God’s call to celibacy that are found in the Bible:
- Jeremiah 16:1-2: God instructs Jeremiah not to marry or have children in the land due to impending judgment, highlighting celibacy as a sign of dedication to God’s prophetic mission.
- 1 Corinthians 7:7: Paul states, “I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that,” emphasizing the value of celibacy as a gift from God.
- 1 Corinthians 7:32-33: Paul explains that an unmarried man is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, while a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, suggesting that celibacy allows for undivided devotion to God.
- Matthew 19:10: Jesus mentions that some may choose to remain single for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven, indicating that celibacy can be a call for spiritual dedication.

💖 Prayer

Prayer for Priests, and Religious Brothers and Sisters

Heavenly Father, in your wisdom you have called certain women and men to a life of special consecration through chaste celibacy. Grant them the grace of joy and perseverance. Be their comfort and strength, and help them to live as witnesses to the world that our true citizenship is in heaven. Amen.

From the Facebook group Prayers

St. Therese of the Child Jesus’ Prayer for Priests

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 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.

St. Faustina’s Prayer for Priests

“O my Jesus, I beg you on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of your Spirit, and give power to the words of Priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to you, O Lord. Lord, give us Holy Priests; You yourself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and great High Priest, may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil’s traps and snares which are continually being set for the soul of Priests.

May the power of Your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for You can do all things” (Diary, no. 1052). Amen.

✝️ Practice

Maintaining a call to celibacy involves a combination of personal commitment, self-discipline, and strategic planning. Here are some effective strategies to help individuals assist members of religious life stay true to their celibacy and avoid scandal::

Identify and Avoid Triggers: Do not allow yourself to put members of religious life into situations that may lead to sexually suggestive behaviors or experiences, and take steps to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Set Clear Boundaries: When necessary or appropriate, establish and communicate boundaries regarding physical affection, emotional intimacy, and interactions with members of religious life.
Depend on your Prayer Life: Seek ways to utilize the power of prayer by praying daily for priests and religious and offering Masses for them.
Encourage and Support Formation: Provide financial support for the formation of priests and religious.
Include in Family Events: Invite priests and religious to participate in family life.
Express Appreciation and Support: Take the time to share with priests and religious your appreciation for their sacrificial life.

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Hungry for More

The Joy of Being Single like Jesus

Moral Authority

Scripture References

Catechism References

Vatican Documents

Key Vatican documents on the vocation to religious life and celibacy emphasize a total gift of self to Christ, highlighting celibacy as a “gift” fostering availability for ministry and a profound spiritual life.

Key Vatican Documents on Celibacy and Priesthood

Key Vatican Documents on Religious Life (Consecrated Life)

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Making the Connection

A Real-Life Example

Woman’s Perspective

Celibacy steeped in a whole lot of love

Man’s Perspective

A Priest On Discovering Celibacy

Further Reading

Additional Reading Materials

Next Steps

Ready to Take the Next Step?

How can we commit to sexual self-control? Study, Prayer and Practice!

Prayer for Priests, and Religious Brothers and Sisters

St. Therese of the Child Jesus’ Prayer for Priests

St. Faustina’s Prayer for Priests

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