O Jesus, Eternal Pontiff, Divine Sacrificer, You who, in Your incomparable love, let the Christian priesthood flow from Your Sacred Heart, deign to pour out upon Your priests the life-giving waves of Your infinite Love.
Live in them, transform them into Yourself, make them, by Your grace, instruments of Your Mercies.
Act in them and through them, and make them, fully clothed in You through the faithful imitation of Your admirable virtues, work, in Your name and by the power of Your spirit, the works that You Yourself performed for the salvation of the world.
Divine Redeemer of souls, see how great is the multitude of those who still sleep in the darkness of error; count the number of those unfaithful sheep who lie at the edge of the precipices; consider the multitude of the poor, the hungry, the ignorant, and the weak who groan in abandonment.
Return to us through Your priests. Revive in them; act through them, and pass again through the world, teaching, forgiving, consoling, sacrificing, and re-establishing the sacred bonds of love between the Heart of God and the human heart. Amen.
Saint Pius X, pray for us.
Indulgenced prayer by Saint Pius X on 03/03/1905.