A Night Prayer

Eternal Father,
I desire to rest in Thy Heart this night.
I make the intention of offering to Thee
every beat of my heart,
joining to them as many acts of love and desire.
I pray that even while I am asleep,
I will bring back to Thee souls that offend Thee.
I ask forgiveness for the whole world,
especially for those who know Thee and yet sin.
I offer to Thee my every breath and heartbeat
as a prayer of reparation.

Amen.

Michael Casey

Humility is truth, and truthful living is most aided by a realistic attitude to ourselves and to others...Humility joins us to the rest of the human race.

St. Clare of Assisi

Love God, serve God: everything is in that.

Venerable Bede

And I pray Thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou has graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. 

Benedict XVI

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

you have given the world its true light, 

Jesus, your Son - the Son of God. 

You abandoned yourself completely 

to God's call and this became a wellspring 

of the goodness which flows forth from him. 

Show us Jesus. Lead us to him. 

Teach us to know and love him, 

so that we too can become capable of true love 

and be fountains of living water 

in the midst of a thirsting world.

Amen.

John Paul II

Before all else, it is Love that judges. God, Who is Love, judges through love.

Gaudium et Spes

The Word of God, through whom all things were made, himself became man and lived in the world of men. As perfect man he has entered into the history of the world, taking it up into himself and bringing it into unity as its head. He reveals to us that God is love, and at the same time teaches us that the fundamental law of human perfection, and therefore of the transformation of the world, is the new commandment of love.

He assures those who have faith in God’s love that the way of love is open to all men, and that the effort to restore universal brotherhood is not in vain. At the same time he warns us that this love is not to be sought after only in great things but also, and above all, in the ordinary circumstances of life.