Prayers of the Saints
Dearest Lord,
teach me to be generous;
teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labour and not to seek reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will.

~ St. Ignatius Loyola

All blessings come to us through our Lord.
He will teach us,
for in beholding his life
we find that he is the best example.

~ St. Teresa of Avila


A Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instument of your peace:
where there is hatred . . . let me sow love:
where there is injury . .  . pardon;
where there is doubt . . . faith;
where there is despair . . . hope;
where there is darkness . . . light;
where there is sadness . . . joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled . .  . as to console:
to be understood . . . as to understand;
to be loved . . . as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to
Eternal life.

When I am liberated by silence,
when I am no longer involved
in the measurement of life, but in the living of it,
I can discover a form of prayer in which 
there is effectively no distraction.
My whole life becomes a prayer.
My whole silence is full of prayer.
The world of silence in which I am immersed
contributes to my prayer.

thomas merton

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