O Jesus, in the tenderness of your love, you raised the first cry of compassion for our humanity in need of guides through the tortuous ways of this world toward light and life. O Lord, you make your Angels Spirits and your ministers like burning fire. Send many priests to this people that is yours and wants to be yours. Cover them with justice so that your saints may exult.

You, who know the hearts of all, show us the ones you have chosen, on whom you want to bestow such a sublime ministry of truth and love.

Enlighten their minds, so that they may know the priceless grace of your divine vocation. Strengthen their wills, so that they will not be seduced by the laxity and pleasures of this world; that they may not become comfortable in the empty joys of life; that they may never be entangled in the low plains veiled by the fog of human desires; that they may not be discouraged by sacrifices, may they open their wings and fly like eagles toward the clear and radiant heights of your priesthood.

Reveal to their parents how great and how beautiful it is to donate their children to you. Grant them the strength to overcome contrasting human interests and affections.

Inspire generous people with the efficacious desire to help those you have chosen, whose poverty is an obstacle to your calling.

Grant their educators the necessary light, so that they may cultivate in their youthful hearts the tender plant of your vocation, till the day in which they - holy and pure - may ascend to your holy altar.

Angels of purity that will prefer your love to all human love - even though it may be tender and holy. Angels of charity who renounce the sweetness of a human family in order to form a larger family of which they will be fathers and shepherds; a family in which the little, the unhappy, afflicted and derelicts will become objects of their predilection. Angels of light, who make the faith in you to be radiant in the minds of people as the morning star.

Angels of sacrifice, who consummate themselves as flames of holocausts for the well being of their brethren.

Angels of counsel and comfort, who may comfort them in their sorrow, may sustain them in their fight, and may show them - in the painful hours of doubt - the bright way of virtue and dedication.

Angels of grace, who purify and elevate souls to union with you, distributing to them the bread of life.

Angels of peace, who at the moment of death, will pour into your people the inexpressible peace of your desire and of your love, and in the ecstasy of your divine kiss, may open for them the gates of heaven, where you are infinite light and happiness for all eternity. Amen.