Imagine the pain our Lord suffers every day because of those priests who ignore Him and flee from His company.
No need to imagine.
Read, ponder and share this post from Father Mark on Vultus Christi. These powerful words are taken from In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest, and are set forth below with his permission.
Have the courage to share this reflection with your pastor and priests. Pray for and support your priests!
[Please consider supporting the work of Father Mark’s community, the Benediction Monks of Perpetual Adoration, whose charism is to pray for the sanctification of all priests.]
Waiting For the Company of Even One Priest
You are always welcome in My presence.
I long to receive you and to keep you close to Me.
This is your vocation, priest-adorer.
Respond to the call of My Heart.
Adore Me for your brother priests who forget that I wait for them in the Sacrament of My Love.
Seek Me out for them and in their name
and I will bless both you and them.
I would renew the priesthood of My Church in this way. I would make My priests resplendent with holiness.
I would impart to their tongues and to their hands the very graces that I poured out upon My Apostles
in the beginnings of My Church.
The reticence is not Mine. It is they, My priests, who flee My company. It is they who turn away from My Eucharistic Face and leave My Eucharistic Heart without the consolation of their friendship. I look for consolers among My priests, and I find so few among them.
You, say, “yes” to Me. Be the priest-adorer of My Eucharistic Face and of My Sacred Heart present in the Sacrament of My Love and waiting for the company of even one priest who loves Me and will offer himself with Me to the Father as a Victim of Reparation.
My Father, too, is grieved by the coldness and indifference with which I who am His Beloved Son, His Eternal Priest, His Immaculate Victim
ceaselessly offered in the sanctuary of heaven, am treated on earth.
This comes not from strangers, but from My very own, from those whom I chose, out of love, to share in My priesthood, to abide in My presence, to nourish My people with the mysteries of My Body and Blood.
All heaven weeps over the sins of My priests. For every sin there is mercy in the Blood and Water that flow from My wounded Side, but the sins of My priests call for reparation.
Make reparation for your brother priests by adoring Me, by remaining before My Eucharistic Face, by offering the love of your heart purified by My great mercy.
(From In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest)
I Thirst for Your Love! 
This is the answer to the crises in the priesthood…this and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
Yes,
Anne you are absolutely right! Yet, as you know, there is such a reluctance among so many of our priests. We must storm heaven on their behalf. Thanks for visiting and for commenting.