Prayers

A Prayer For The Christian Clergy

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This is a simple prayer I wrote for the Christian Clergy and for the truly Christian unity of the Church:

O my Good God, I ask you please to Bless and shower your Grace upon those who give up so much of their lives to serve You and Your church as leaders and authority figures. Watch over all who Shepherd your flock. Amen.

I ask You to bless and watch over them— Your Preachers and Pastors, Your Priests and Patriarchs, Your Deacons and Bishops, Your Reverends and Rectors, your Popes and Ministers, your Missionaries and Elders, your lay Leaders and Teachers, and your many oft forgotten humble servants of Christ, who lead in and serve Your Church without titles or formal offices. Bless O Lord all these who dedicate their lives to leading Your flock. Amen.

Keep them, O Lord, from teaching grave error, and from leading souls astray. Deliver them, O God of all creation, in the name of Jesus, and by the power of the Precious Blood, from all false doctrine, heresy, and error, and from the wickedness and snares of the devil. Convict them, Holy Spirit, of the truths of Your eternal Word so that they may come to know the fullness of Your Truth and serve it once they’ve found it. Amen.

O my Good Jesus, Your Church that You willed be one has been divided by our sins like the many branches of a tree. But in You, O Lord, we who are in Christ are all still One Body in spirit, united to Your Mystical Body, Your Holy Church by our Baptism, by our Faith, Hope, and Love. Forgive us our schisms, O Lord, as you forgive us our sins. Come soon Christ Jesus, and reconcile our sad divisions by the infinite power of Your Love. Help those who lead in Your name to find Your sacred truths and accept them, and to be in this world but not of it. May ever Your will, not be ours be done. Amen.

Accept, Heavenly Father we ask you, our pleadings for the healing and truly Christian unity of your Church through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.