Thursday, August 27, 2020

For Help to Sanctify the Day



Jesus, My Divine Redeemer, to Thee do I offer myself this day to do Thy holy Will under all the circumstances which may manifest it. 
 
More especially do I make this oblation of my will to draw down Thy grace and blessing upon my intercourse with others.
 
May I unite myself together with Thee, to all the good possessed by any soul with whom I may converse, that in Thee and thro' Thy grace, it may be augmented in each of our souls, and the evil of our nature be no obstacle to our further love of Thee.
 
I desire that pure charity may reign in me and be the bond uniting me to all in the Holy Spirit, and so form a single drop, which may reflect the great ocean of the Adorable Trinity in which the love of the Holy Spirit binds Himself to our Heavenly Father and to Thee, sweet Jesus, the Eternal Word.
 
May the Holy Sacrament of Love and our Blessed Mother's protection augment and secure to me this true charity, this love of all in Thee, and may humility be its safeguard. Amen.

Prayers of an Irish Mother, 1934


Wednesday, August 26, 2020

A Little Prayer


Live, Jesus, live, so live in me,
That all I do, be done by Thee,
All that I do or think or say,
May be for Thee alone to-day
Each beat of heart and breath of mine,
May be, sweet Jesus, always Thine.

Prayers of an Irish Mother, 1934