This is from the diary of St. Maria Faustina and was printed in our bulletin this past week. Right now priests in our diocese are in great need of prayer. Please do not forget to offer your prayers for them, morning and night! They are in need of courage, for now is a time of trial for all Catholic Christians, and especially for the priests, so many of whom have been persecuted by being sent away, forcibly retired, sent to the military, etc., artificially creating the "priest shortage" so desired. Shame, shame, shame! Our Lady predicted this persecution which so offends Our Lord and St. Faustina urges us to pray for our priests. Remember, strange as it may seem, enemies of Our Lord may come from without or within! So we must keep close to the merciful heart of Jesus, says St. Faustina.

  Picture below is a statue of St. Faustina at St. Mary's.
Oh my Jesus, I beg You on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to You O Lord.

Lord, give us holy priests; You Yourself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests.

May the power of Your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for You can do all things.

Amen.