Prayer for Grace to be the Will of God[1]
Grant me, most kind Jesus, Thy grace, that it may abide with me, labor with me, and persevere with me to the end.
Grant me ever to desire and to will that which is the more acceptable to Thee, and pleases Thee more dearly.
May Thy will be mine, and my will ever follow Thine, and be in closest accord with it.
May it be my one care to will and to be unwilling with Thee, and may I be unable to will or not will anything but what Thou wiliest or wiliest not.
200 days, once a day. — Leo XIII, Feb. 27, 1886.
St. Teresa's Book-Mark
Let nothing disturb thee,
Nothing affright thee;
All things are passing.
God never changeth;
Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth,
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
— (Longfellow's translation.)
Paraphrase of St. Teresa's Book-Mark
LET nothing trouble thee,
Let nothing affright thee.
All things pass; away?
God never changes.
Patience obtains everything.
God alone suffices!
When crosses would afflict thee.
Oh! let thy watchword be,
Thy holy Mother's lesson, "Let nothing trouble thee:"
If darkness round thee gathers,
And fills thy soul with fear,
"Let nothing e'er affright thee,"
She whispers in thy ear.
In every joy or sorrow
Which, meets thee day by day,
She bids thee to remember "That all things pass away."
- ↑ From the Imitation of Christ, iii, 15; v, 3.
