A Prayer for Priests - Keep Them I Pray You (No Music)

Under Thy Protection - Catholic Prayers for Healing and Peace · Sep 5, 2026 · 1m

Keep them I pray You, dearest Lord,

Keep them, for they are Thine;

Your priests whose lives burn out before Your consecrated shrine.

Keep them for they are in the world through from the world apart.

When earthly pleasures tempt, allure— shelter them in Your Heart.

Keep them, and comfort them in hours of loneliness and pain,

When all their life of sacrifice for souls seems but in vain.

Keep them, and remember, O Lord, they have no one but You.

Yet they have only human hearts, with human frailty.

Keep them as spotless as the Host, that daily they caress.

Their every thought and word and deed…