Clergymen - FEED, TEND and PROTECT your sheep!

"I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep" (John. 10:11)

To bad clergymen - please take a moment and reflect on the picture above!
A good reminder that this is what you signed up for.

FEED, TEND and PROTECT your sheep, not the other way around, and you are NOT to become lovers or friends of the world. Why do I say this? I say this because the reality is many of you have turned your back on your duty. Too afraid to speak up. Too afraid to push back. Too afraid to fight the wolves. Or maybe you just don't care anymore?

Just so you know, the flock you're supposed to be tending is scattered, confused, and vulnerable - exposed to the wolves -- putting your soul and their souls in danger. One betrayed and sold out the Lord. Let us not re-live that terrifying night at Gethsemene again.

Maybe it's time to go back... Go back where? You might ask...

Let us go back to the shore where it all started.........

Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?

He said to him,

Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.

He said to him,

Feed my lambs.

He then said to him a second time,

Simon, son of John, do you love me?

He said to him,

Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.

He said to him,

Tend my sheep.

He said to him the third time,

Simon, son of John, do you love me?

Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time,

Do you love me?

and he said to him,

Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.

[Jesus] said to him,

Feed my sheep.

(John 21:15-17)

Now ask yourself a question:

DO I LOVE THE LORD?

A PRAYER FOR THE REDEMPTION OF BAD PRIESTS

Divine Savior Jesus Christ, Thou are the Good Shepherd who gives His life for His sheep. Oh, be in a very special way the Good Shepherd of those poor lost priests who are also appointed by Thee to be leaders of Thy people, but who have broken the oath of their holy ordination and have become unfaithful to their exalted calling. Bestow upon these poorest of the poor the very fullness of that pastoral solicitude with which Thou dost so faithfully seek the sheep that are lost! Touch their hearts with the irresistible ray of grace which emanates from Thine all-merciful love! Enlighten their minds and strengthen their wills, that they may turn away from all sin and error and come back to Thy holy altar and to Thy people. O most compassionate Savior! Remember that Thou didst once redeem the souls of Thine erring priests with Thy Precious Blood and in infinite preferential love didst impress upon them the indelible character of the priesthood. Put wholly to shame those miserable helpers of Satan who lay snares for the virtue of priests and endanger the holy ideal of the priesthood. Most graciously accept our prayers and sacrifices for poor priests who have gone astray and hear our earnest petition. Amen 

Imprimatur - Bishop John F. Noll (April 18, 1948)

St. Anthony of Padua, defender of the Holy Eucharist, obtain for us holy priests

St. John-Mary Vianney, model of sacerdotal holiness, obtain for us holy priests

St. Francis Xavier, patron of missionary priests, obtain for us holy priests

St. Therese of the Child-Jesus and of the Holy Face, victim offered for the sanctification of priests, obtain for us holy priests

Saints and Servants of God, obtain for us holy priests.

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