Among all the souls we pray for this month there are the priests who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith. I invite you to take a moment today to pray for the priests who have served you and who have gone to eternity with the great High Priest, Christ Jesus the Lord. This is a prayer for a priest's funeral taken from the Order of Christian Funerals.
Lord God,
you chose our brother (name)
to serve your people as a priest
and to share the joys and burdens of their lives.
Look with mercy on him
and give him the reward of his labors,
the fullness of life promised to those
who preach your holy Gospel.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
you chose our brother (name)
to serve your people as a priest
and to share the joys and burdens of their lives.
Look with mercy on him
and give him the reward of his labors,
the fullness of life promised to those
who preach your holy Gospel.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Thank you ConcordPastor for urging us to remember priests who served their Church and parishioners. Right now, we seem to focus upon the clergy who shamed the church and themselves to the unfortunate exclusion of many selfless and spiritual individuals.
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