To Our Lord Jesus
Asks Jesus, meek and humble of heart, to free us from the desire to be esteemed and the fear of being humiliated. The booklet keeps it for private prayer.
Attributed to Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val. Imprimatur: James A. McNulty, Bishop of Paterson, N.J. From the Community’s prayer book.
O Jesus, meek and humble of heart,
Allhear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, from the desire of being loved, from the desire of being extolled, from the desire of being honoured, from the desire of being praised, from the desire of being preferred, from the desire of being consulted, from the desire of being approved,
Alldeliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated, from the fear of being despised, from the fear of being rebuked, from the fear of being calumniated, from the fear of being forgotten, from the fear of being ridiculed, from the fear of being wronged, from the fear of being suspected,
Alldeliver me, Jesus.
That others may be loved more than I, that others may be esteemed more than I, that in the opinion of the world others may increase and I may decrease, that others may be chosen and I set aside, that others may be praised and I unnoticed, that others may be preferred to me in everything, that others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should,
AllJesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
