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Universal Prayer
Lord, I
believe in you: increase my faith. I trust in you:
strengthen my trust. I love you: let me love you
more and more. I am sorry for my sins: deepen my
sorrow.
I worship you as my first beginning, I long for you
as my last end, I praise you as my constant helper,
and call on you as my loving protector.
Guide me by your wisdom, correct me with your
justice, comfort me with your mercy, protect me with
your power.
I offer you, Lord, my thoughts: to be fixed on you;
my words: to have you for their theme; my actions:
to reflect my love for you; my sufferings: to be
endured for your greater glory.
I want to do what you ask of me: in the way you ask,
for as long as you ask, because you ask it.
Lord, enlighten my understanding, strengthen my
will, purify my heart, and make me holy.
Help me to repent of my past sins and to resist
temptation in the future. Help me to rise above my
human weaknesses and to grow stronger as a
Christian.
Let me love you, my Lord and my God, and see myself
as I really am: a pilgrim in this world, a Christian
called to respect and love all whose lives I touch,
those in authority over me or those under my
authority, my friends and my enemies.
Help me conquer anger with gentleness, greed by
generosity, apathy by fervor. Help me to forget
myself and reach out towards others.
Make me prudent in planning, courageous in taking
risks. Make me patient in suffering, unassuming in
prosperity.
Keep me, Lord, attentive at prayer, temperate in
food and drink, diligent in my work, firm in my good
intentions.
Let my conscience be clear, my conduct without
fault, my speech blameless, my life well-ordered.
Put me on guard against my human weaknesses. Let me
cherish your love for me, keep your law, and come at
last to your salvation.
Teach me to realize that this world is passing, that
my true future is the happiness of heaven, that life
on earth is short, and the life to come eternal.
Help me to prepare for death with a proper fear of
judgment, but a greater trust in your goodness. Lead
me safely through death to the endless joy of
heaven. Amen.
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Universal Prayer
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