A Blessing for Priesthood.
May the blessing released through your hands, cause the windows to open in darkened minds.
May the sufferings your calling brings be the winter before the spring. May the companionship of your doubt restore what beliefs leave out. May the secret hungers of your heart harvest from the emptiness its sacred fruit. May your solitude be a voyage into the wilderness and wonder of God. May you words have a prophetic edge to enable the heart to hear itself. May the silence where your calling dwells foster your freedom in all you do and feel. May you find words full of divine warmth to cloth the dying in the language of dawn. May the slow light of the Eucharist be a sure shelter around your future.