Jesus Requests Daily Prayer For Priests

In 1921, Jesus appeared to Sr. Josefa Menendez and asked her to offer all she did for three priests who were wounding His Heart. For a time, she suffered very much in body and soul, offering all for those priests. Jesus reappeared to Sister Josefa on the Feast of His Sacred Heart, joyful that they had returned to Him. Jesus taught Sister the following prayer and told her she was to repeat these words every day:

"O Jesus, by Thy most loving Heart,

I implore Thee to inflame with zeal

for Thy love and glory

all the priests of the world,

all missionaries

and those whose office it is to preach Thy word,

that, on fire with holy zeal,

they may snatch souls from the devil

and lead them into the shelter of Thy Heart,

where forever they may glorify Thee."

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In The Way of Divine Love it is related that: "Josefa never forgot that Feast of the Sacred heart. She had witnessed the infinite joy of the Sacred Heart when His priests give Him all the love they owe Him. The prayer He had taught her became her daily petition and priestly souls the first and biggest intention of her consecrated life. A little secret note found only after her death proves that at this time Our Lord kept the thought of the missions constantly before her eyes."

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Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests, and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.

Jesus Says, "Come to Me"

"Now write for My souls: I want to tell them of the poignant sorrows which filled My Heart at the Last Supper. If it was bliss for Me to think of all those to whom I should be both Companion and Heavenly Food, of all who would surround Me to the End Of Time with adoration, reparation, and love...this in no wise diminished My grief at the many who would leave Me deserted in My tabernacle and who would not even believe in My Real Presence.

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"Sacrileges and outrages, and all the nameless abominations to be committed against Me, passed before My eyes...the long, lonely hours of the day and night in which I would remain alone on the altars...and the multitudes who would not heed the appeals of My Heart..."

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"It is love for souls that keeps Me a Prisoner in the Blessed Sacrament. I stay there that all may come and find the comfort they need in the tenderest of Hearts, the best of Fathers, the most faithful of Friends, who will never abandon them.

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"Poor pitiable sinners, do not turn away from Me...Day and night I am on the watch for you in the tabernacle. I will not reproach you...I will not cast your sins in your face...But I will wash them in My Blood and in My Wounds. No need to be afraid...come to Me...If you but knew how dearly I love you.

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"And you, dear souls, why this coldness and indifference on your part?

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Were you weak or ill in body surely you would find time to see a doctor who would cure you?..Come. then, to One who is able to give both strength and health to your soul, and bestow the alms of love on this Divine Prisoner who watches for you, calls for you and longs to see you at His side."

~ Words of Jesus to Sister Josefa Menendez from The Way of Divine Love ~

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Without our Catholic priests, there would be no Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist to receive in Holy Communion or to spend time with in adoration. Please consider offering ONE HOUR of prayer before Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament for the sanctification of His priests. Console the Heart of Jesus by showing your appreciation of His continued Real Presence among us and for providing priests to make His remaining with us possible.

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Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests, and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.

What Jesus Expects From Priests

"And priests? Who can express all I expect from each of My priests...They are invested with My own power, that they may forgive sin...I Myself am obedient to their word when they summon Me from Heaven to earth...I am totally surrendered into their hands; they may confine Me to the tabernacle or give Me to the faithful in Holy Communion...They are, so to say, My almoners.

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"To each I have entrusted souls that by their preaching, their direction and above all by their example, they may guide them in the path of virtue.

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"What response do they make?...Do they all fulfill Love's mission?...Will this My minister at the altar confide the souls of his charges to Me today? Will he make reparation to Me for the offenses I receive, the secret of which has been entrusted to him? Will he entreat of Me the strength he needs to carry out in holiness his sacred ministry?...zeal to work for the salvation of souls...courage in self-sacrifice, more today than yesterday?...Will he give Me all the love I expect...and shall I be able to rely entirely on him as on My dear and well-beloved disciple?..O what cruel sorrow for My Heart, when I am forced to say: the world wounds Me in My hands and in My feet and it sullies My countenance...My chosen souls and My consecrated religious, My priests, they rend and break My Heart...How many priests after giving back grace to many souls are themselves in a state of sin!...How many say Mass thus...receive Me thus...live and die thus!...

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"Now you know what anguish oppressed me at the Last Supper when I saw in the midst of the twelve the first unfaithful apostle...and after him so many more who would follow him in the course of the ages."

~Words of Jesus to Sister Josefa Menendez from The Way of Divine Love ~

Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests, and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of his Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.

What Does God Know About Loneliness?

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To Sister Josefa Menendez, Jesus revealed:

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"Contemplate me in the prison where I spent the greater part of the night...

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"Compare the prison with the Tabernacle...

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"In the prison I spent only part of one night...but in the Tabernacle, how many days and nights?

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"In the prison I endured cold, sleeplessness, hunger and thirst, pain, shame, solitude, and desertion. And there passed before My mind's eye all the tabernacles where in the course of ages I should lack the shelter of love...

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"And how often should I wait for this or that other soul to visit Me in the Blessed Sacrament and receive Me into his heart...how many nights should I spend longing for his coming...but he would let business or carelessness or anxiety for his health get the better of him...and he would not come!

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"Gaze steadfastly upon Him during that night of pain and see that sorrow continued in the loneliness of countless tabernacles and the coldness of many hearts.

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"Comfort Me in My sorrow by keeping Me faithful company..."

Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests, and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.

The Better Part--Eucharistic Adoration

The answer that Jesus gives Martha when she complains about having to do all of the work while Mary sits at the feet of Jesus--"There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her" (Luke 10:42).--were words not just for Martha, but for all of us. His words are as true today as they were way back then.

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We can be busy about many things, like Martha, with good intentions about serving Our Lord--and yet not take the time to be with Jesus where He waits for us in the Blessed Sacrament. When Jesus said, "Come to Me, all you that labor and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you" (Matthew 11:28), He was speaking also to us and to people of all time. He wants to give us the graces we need to go out into the world and serve Him, but what we need in order to bear good fruit is to be spiritually fed and nourished by Jesus first. We need to go to Him in our emptiness so that He might fill us.

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Jesus asked Sister Josefa Menendez to share His words with "My souls".

"It is love for souls that keeps Me a Prisoner in the Blessed Sacrament.

I stay there that all may come and find the comfort they need in the tenderest of Hearts, the best of Fathers, the most faithful of Friends, who will never abandon them.

Do I not know that family cares...household concerns...and the requirements of your position in life...make continual calls upon you?...

But cannot you spare a few minutes in which to come and prove your affection and your gratitude?

Do not allow yourselves to be involved in useless and incessant cares, but spare a few moments to visit and receive this Prisoner of Love!"

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Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests, and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.