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BENEDICTION FOR PRIESTLY Celebrant: Bless our Holy Father, Pope

VOCATIONS Francis and our beloved Bishop Sofronio.
MARIA ASSUMPTA SEMINARY Renew them today in your Holy Spirit.
OPENING PRAYER All: We beseech You, hear us.
O Salutaris Hostia Celebrant: Bless all priests and
O salutaris hostia seminarians. Give us perseverance in the
Quae coeli pandis ostium. pursuit of our holy vocation. Let us be the
Bella premunt hostilia; light and salt of the Earth.
Da robur, fer auxilium. All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: bless those in positions of
Uni trinoque Domino authority, all those who direct us in the
Sit semopiterna Gloria; Apostolate on the national, diocesan or
Qui vitam sine termino, parochial levels.
Nobis donet in patria. Amen All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: bless our country-make it
Celebrant: All praise, honor and glory to holy! Bless our president and all those
God the Father, through Jesus Christ, our who govern us.
Savior and His Holy Spirit. All: We beseech You, hear us.
All: Amen. Celebrant: bless our Catholic endeavors
Celebrant: God our Father, give to our to protect life from the moment of
hearts the light of faith and the fire of love. conception until we are called from this
So that we may worship You in a spirit of life by you.
truth, our God and Lord, present in this All: We beseech You, hear us.
sacrament, who lives and reigns forever Celebrant: Bless all who have gone before
and ever. us, who nourished us both physically and
All: Amen. spiritually, giving us examples of
Celebrant: Lord Jesus, our prayers and generosity and compassion in the gift of
worship are sincerely and fervently our faith.
directed to you, requesting that many of All: We beseech You, hear us.
the faithful will answer Your call to serve Celebrant: Bless all of us here; make us
You as priests. holy and pleasing in your sight. Give us
All: Amen. the courage to be instruments of your will
every day.
EVENING PRAYER All: We beseech You, hear us.
Psalmody Celebrant: Bless our families, our studies,
Reading our work and our play, Everything that is
MOMENTS of SILENCE ours.
Responsory All: We beseech You, hear us.
Canticle of Mary (Stand) Celebrant: bless our parents and families
as we follow God’s call. Give them the
(INTERCESSIONS) PRAYERS TO CHRIST spirit of love, generosity and openness to
THE KING your holy will.
Celebrant: Bless Lord, our Holy Catholic All: We beseech You, hear us.
Church. Celebrant: Bless our benefactors and
All: grant her peace and watch over her all friends who unselfishly share their
over the world. blessings to us. Give them bountiful
blessings that they may continuously help

those who wish to offer themselves to your
service as priests.
All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: Bless our professors who
assist us in our learning. Grant them
wisdom and the spirit of unselfish service.
All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: Bless Lord, the sick, the poor,
those in jail and all who suffer and are in
danger.
All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: bless those who are hungry,
those who need shelter and those who are
in need of medical attention.
All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: Bless those who lack courage
when challenged to live their faith and
those in most need of Your grace.
All: We beseech You, hear us.
Celebrant: Let us pray.
All: Sacred Heart of Christ the King,
behold us at your feet, adoring your divine
splendor. With deep gratitude we realize
that you have chosen us, from among
many, to be yours- really yours, Lord. And
through the intercession of Mary Assumed
into Heaven, our Mother, we consecrate
ourselves to you. We want our souls to be
immersed in grace at all times. Give us the
strength to bear our cross all through life.
We want Lord to go against the current
and follow you, who are the Way, the
Truth and the Life. Lord Jesus, teach us to
pray. Give us a taste for the Holy
Eucharist. Teach us to preach you by our
example and in conversation. Grant Lord,
that we may open the door of your grace to
all who are in need of it. Amen.
PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:
All: O Divine Jesus. You who taight us to
pray to the Lord of the Harvest that He
send laborers into the harvest, grant to
our diocese and throughout the world,
many holy priests. May they dedicate their
talents, their strength and their zeal to the
salvation of souls and the Glory of your
Father. If it should so please you to choose
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us to be priests, we would thank you now
and for all eternity.
FOR OUR PRESENT BISHOPS, PRIESTS,
BROTHERS, SISTERS, DEACONS AND
SEMINARIANS
Celebrant: Almighty God, look upon the
face of Him who is the eternal High Priest,
and have compassion on your bishops,
priests, brothers, sisters, deacons and
seminarians in today’s world. Remember
that we are but weak and frail human
beings. Stir up in us the grace of our
vocation. Keep us close to you lest the
enemy prevail against us, so that we may
never do anything in the slightest degree
unworthy of our sublime vocation.
All: o Jesus, we pray for your faithful and
fervent priests and religious, for the
unfaithful and tepid ones; for those
laboring at home and for those who are
lonely and desolate; for those who are in
Purgatory. But above all, we recommend
to you the priests dearest to us; the priest
who baptizes us; the priests who absolved
us from our sins; the priests at whose
Holy Mass we have assisted and who
instructed us or helped us by their
encouragement. We pray devoutly for all
the priests to whom we are indebted in
any other way. O Jesus, keep them all
close to your heart and bless them
abundantly in time and in eternity.
All: Amen.
Celebrant: Mary, Queen of the clergy and
seminarians.
All: Pray for us, obtain for us many holy
priests and seminarians.
ADORATION FOLLOWS
TANTUM ERGO SACRAMENTUM:
Tantum Ergo
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
Veneremur cernui;
Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat ritui;
Praestet fides supplementum

Sensuum defectui.
Genitoi, genitoque
Laus et jubilation,
Salus honor virtus quoque
Sit et benediction;
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudation. Amen.
Celebrant: You have given them bread
from heaven.
All: Having all sweetness within it.
Celebrant: Lord Jesus Christ, you gave us
the Eucharist as the memorial of your
suffering and death. May our worship on
this Sacrament of your Body and Blood
help us to experience the salvation you
won for us and the peace of the kingdom,
where you live and reign with the Father
and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
All: Amen.
The celebrant then blesses the people with
the Eucharist, kneels and together they all
say the:
DIVINE PRAISES:
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and
true man.
Blessed be the name of Jesus.
Blessed be His most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the most Sacrament
of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary
most holy.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate
Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and
Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste
spouse.
Blessed be God in His angels and His
saints.
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BENEDICTUS DEUS
Bene-dic-tus De-us benedictum nomen
sanc-tum e-jus.
Benedictus Je-sus Chris-tus verus Deus
et ve-rus ho-mo.
Benedictum no-men Je-sus benedictum
cor ejus sa-cra-tis-si-mum.
Benedictus san-guis e-jus pre-ti-o-sis-si-
mus.
Bene-dic-tus Je-sus in Sanctissimo Altaris
sa-cra-men-to.
Bene-dic-tus Sanc-tus Spiri-tus Pa-ra-cli-
tus.
Benedictus magna Ma-ter De-i Mari-a
sanc-tis-si-ma.
Benedicta sanc-ta e-jus et immacula-ta
con-cep-ti-o.
Bene-dic-ta e-jus glorio-sa As-sump-ti-o.
Benedictus no-men Ma-ri-ae Virgi-nis et
Mat-ris.
Benedictus sanc-tus Jo-seph ejus castis
si-mus Spon-sus.
Benedictus Deus in An-ge-lis su-is et in
sanc-tis su-is.
Celebrant: May the Heart of Jesus in the
most Blessed Sacrament be praised,
adored and loved with grateful affection at
every moment, in all the tabernacles of the
world, even to the end of time.
All: Amen.
CLOSING HYMN (O SACRAMENT MOST
HOLY)
O Sacrament Most Holy
O sacrament most holy
O sacrament Divine
All praise and all thanksgiving
be every moment thine,
Be every moment thine.
Sweet sacrament we thee adore
O make us love thee more and more
O make us love thee more and more.