Through your Most Holy Mother, I offer You, for the sanctification of priests and seminarians, throughout this day, all my prayers, works, and joys, my sacrifices and sufferings. Give us, Lord, truly holy priests who, inflamed by the fire of Your love, seek nothing but Your glory. Preserve them from all interior and exterior dangers; defend them, above all, against the snares of the enemies of their virtue and their holy priestly ideal. O Mary, tender Mother of priests, take them all under your special protection, and may your maternal hand gather and lead back to the Good Shepherd those poor priests who have strayed from their vocation. Amen.

"The new evangelization calls for new evangelizers, and these are the priests who are committed to living their priesthood as a specific path toward holiness." Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis (1992), by Saint John Paul II.

Let us offer the Holy Rosary today for all priests, especially for those in mission lands; may they, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, receive the graces necessary to achieve holiness in their ministry.