Keep them, for they are in the world,
Though from the world apart;
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure,
Shelter them in your Heart.

Keep them, and comfort them
In hours of lonliness and pain,
When all their lives of sacrifice
For souls, seems but in vain.

Keep them, and remember Lord, 
They have no one but Thee,
Yet they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.

Keep them as spotless as the host,
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.

Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for them.

Supplied by Michael Cutbirth