Dear Jesus, Help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly, that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me, but only Jesus! Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others; the light, O Jesus will be all from You; none of it will be mine; it will be you, shining on others through me. Let me thus praise You the way You love best, by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words but by my example, by the catching force of the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Father Mychal's Prayer

Lord, take me where You want me to go;
Let me meet who You want me to meet;
Tell me what You want me to say, and
Keep me out of Your way.

- Father Mychal F. Judge, OFM

Former chaplain to the New York City Fire Department, killed on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center disaster

2 comments:

redtown said...

Most of the world first heard of Father Mychal Judge on 9/11, yet many New Yorkers already considered him to be a living saint because of his extraordinary faith and heroic compassion. Here's a prayerful website dedicated to Fr. Mike--

http://SaintMychalJudge.blogspot.com

PS: Fr.Mychal met privately for an hour with Mother Teresa in N.Y. in the 1990's. Wouldn't you have loved to be a fly on the wall in that meeting ?!

June 5, 2007 at 11:22 AM
LB said...

Thanks for sharing Fr. Mychal website with me! Simply awesome! And yes, he is a LIVING SAINT. No doubt.

That meeting reminds me of Pope John Paul II meeting with Mother Teresa.

p.s.
A fly?(smile)... absolutely!

June 5, 2007 at 9:30 PM

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