Here are some examples of 140 character-long prayers for Twitter composed by some of you:
@mommy2jujubean: Dear Lord, Guide todays priests everyday and help our future priests find their way in their vocations.
@ruidiaz: Please Lord, help us to achiveve more vocations in these modern times (vocations type 2.0 if possible!) Thanks God
@Chris_Buckley: Help us make an acceptable offering, O Trinity, of such memory, reason & skill that we may grow what you have planted in us.
@BarbInNebraska: Dear Angel ever at my side, how loving you must be. Please whisper to your loving child what God wants me to be. Amen
@EvaUlian: Vocations: A long time ago a guy named Thomas was pretty mixed up. When he asked the way Christ said to him, “I am the Way”
@EvaUlian: When we lose sight of You. Help us to ask people who know your way, so we can know it too- Send us people who know your way
@Taquoriaan: Lord, many priests are burned out because there is lots of work and a shortage of priests. We pray for more discernments to the priesthood.
You can Twitter your prayers (include #futurepriests), or post them here in the comments. Thanks!
Archbishop Eijk’s prayer for vocations:
Loving God,
Jesus urged us to pray for workers for the harvest. Through the intercession of Saint Willibrord, patron saint of our diocese, we ask you: call young people to follow Jesus as a priest, a deacon or in consacrated life. Through your Holy Spirit, grant them the strength to answer their calling. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer for vocations:
O Father, raise up among Christians abundant and holy vocations to the priesthood, who keep the faith alive and guard the blessed memory of Your Son Jesus through the preaching of His word and the administration of the sacraments, with which You continually renew Your faithful.
Grant us holy ministers of Your altar, who are careful and fervent guardians of the Eucharist, the sacrament of the supreme gift of Christ for the redemption of the world.
Call ministers of Your mercy, who, through the sacrament of Reconciliation, spread the joy of Your forgiveness.
Grant, O Father, that the Church may welcome with joy the numerous inspirations of the Spirit of Your Son and, docile to His teachings, may she care for vocations to the ministerial priesthood and to the consecrated life.
Sustain the bishops, priests and deacons, consecrated men and women, and all the baptised in Christ, so that they may faithfully fulfill their mission at the service of the Gospel. This we pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Dear Lord Please send us more workers for your vineyard. Please open us to see your call.
Jesus Christ, you are my life. Alleluia! Let this be the song of a whole new generation of priests, bringing hope to this age
Dear St. Joseph, pray with us that the families of those called to the priesthood will be as loving and supportive as you were to the Son of God.
HailMaryFulofGracetheLordis w/uBlesedRU amngWomn&Blesed is theFruitofThyWombJesus HolyMaryMotherofGodPray4us siners now&@the hr ofRDeathAmen
Holy Spirit stir up the hearts of those who you call to be priests. Like Mary may they give their “Fiat!” their “YES!” Empower them to be Christ’s own to serve the people of God. Set them on fire for your kingdom! Through Him and with Him in the power of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Lieve Heer,
Schenk ons heilige priesters!
Dear God, please give wisdom and strength to the men You call to be priests. Help them to answer You with a “yes!”. Keep them on track with the Holy Spirit to bring us all to Heaven with our Blessed Mother and all the Saints, through Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord, Amen.
Oops, 140:
Dear God, please give wisdom, strength and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to the men You call to be priests so they may bring us all to You, through Christ our Lord, Amen.
May those called respond to your call and live their vocation in sainthood so that this vocation can regain it’s force and purpose. Amen.
Bendigo hoy al Señor, sacerdote Eterno, según el Rito de Melquisedec, por habernos entregado al sumo Sacerdote Ofrenda y Víctima plena para el Perdón de nuestros pecados: JESUCRISTO, que nos ha abierto el cielo para siempre, y hoy lo sigue haciendo a través de todos y cada uno de los Presbíteros, hombres escogidos de en medio de la comunidad,para hacer presente la Salvación en medio de nuestra historia por medio de la Iglesia.
Te ruego Señor por cada uno de ellos: Ilumínalos,fortifícalos,Santifícalos,Entrégales tu Santo Espíritu, para que con su libertad y Amor te Encarnen a Ti para toda la humanidad.
Te lo suplico por Jesucristo, aTi que eres Dios en unidad del Espíritu santo por los siglos de los siglos , Amen.
Dear Lord, we ask you to send more and more Priests to your Church, specially in Europe! Visit their families, schools, streets, and whatever places, and touch the hearts of the young men and women to the service in the Lord’s vineyard! We need priests, Lord, to celebrate the Holy Mass,
to listen to the Confessions,
to guide our families,
to assist the sick and poor,
to lead people to become authentic Christians,
and to pray for the entire world. Saint Cura d’Ars: pray for Europe!
God bless the church and open young men hearts. Everybody around the world need a good and a saint priest for serve the people and to preach the word.
Mitte Domine operarios in messem tuam.
Messis quidem multa. Operarii autem pauci.