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Sunday Holy Hour
for Priests

Sunday June 20, 2010
Our Lady of the Roses,
Mary Help of Mothers Shrine
9:30 - 11 a.m.
(time change for this Sunday only)

OFFERING OF THE HOLY HOUR
FOR PRIESTS

          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.

(l. to r.) Mary Rose and Catherine Bauer of Cape Cod, Mass., and Mary Consoli of Yardley, Penn., sang Thou Art the Star of Morning, O Sanctissima and Immaculate Mary.

"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

Over 200 of the faithful praying for the Pope and priests.

Knocked out  Michael from Samoa taking a break from a busy pilgrimage weekend.

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).

Fathers Justin McCreedy and Alban Sueper S.S.C. of Bristol, R.I., impart their priestly blessing to close the Holy Hour.