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Sunday Holy Hour for Priests

Sunday June 14, 2009  Our Lady of the Roses Shrine  9:30 - 11 a.m.
(time change for this Sunday only)

          O my God, poor, weak and miserable as I am, I have come to spend this hour alone with You, in reparation for the priests who have forgotten that they are Your chosen souls. Especially, dear God, do I offer this holy hour for the priests who at this moment need it most. In praying for consecrated souls, help me to remember my own utter weakness, misery and nothingness. Were it not for Your grace I would be far worse than those for whom I pray.

          O my God, help those priests who are faithful to remain faithful. To those who are falling, stretch forth Your divine hand that they may grasp it as their support. And for those poor unfortunate souls who have fallen, lift them up in the great ocean of Your mercy, that being engulfed therein, they may receive the grace to return to Your great loving heart. Amen.

"The prayers that you have conducted for the priesthood on the Sundays of your years upon earth shall be counted at the time when all of you shall go over the veil. Then you will rejoice with all Heaven for the number of priestly souls that you have brought back to the fold."

Our Lady, September 27, 1986

The Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary, along with litanies and hymns are prayed and sung during the Sunday Holy Hour for priests.

Jesus and Our Lady have promised to be present at the sacred grounds as long as one person comes here to pray (even outside the scheduled times of the Rosary Vigils and Holy Hours).

Carole Gonsalves (l.), Mumbai, India organizer and Philomena Rajendra, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia organizer

Catherine and Mary Rose Bauer sang O Salutaris, Thou Art the Star of Morning, and Immaculate Mary.

James Donohue, Vigil Coordinator, reading the names of recently deceased Baysiders and those who are ill and asking for prayers.

The good Fathers impart their priestly blessing to close the Holy Hour.