PRAYER FOR THE GIFT OF OBEDIENCE
03/07/2013 18:13
PRAYER FOR THE GIFT OF OBEDIENCE
LORD JESUS, help me to hear you better
and to live in obedience to your loving will for me.
Give me a great increase in the charism
of obedience according to the spirit of my institute
so that I may follow you in the way
for which you have chosen me,
so that I may not shrink from the
cross but carry it in union with you.
Help me, through a new outpouring
of the charism of obedience into my heart
and my will, to obey your loving will always
and to live in a spirit of listening
and of readiness to hear your word and do it.
Give me a greater spirit of surrender
that I may say yes to you in all things,
laying down my life daily for love of you.
Give me your grace of being obedient
even unto death,
and to live that same kenosis,
that same emptying out,
that you lived so that I may
be filled with your light and your Spirit.
Let me live your “emptying out,”
Lord, in my daily contemplation
in humble and loving reverence.
Let me live it in my community
and in my apostolate in reverent service
and in obedience to you in all the ways you speak to me.
Let me live it in my death; however you call me
to come to you finally.
AMEN.
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