Prayer for the Week

Father,

I abandon myself into you hands;

    do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you;

    I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me,

and in all you creatures.

I wish no more than this, O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul;

    I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,

    for I love you Lord, and so need to give myself,

    to surrender myself into your hands, without reserve

    and with boundless confidence,

for you are my father.            

Charles de FouCauld (Brother Charles of Jesus 1858-1916)

                    Mwditations of a Hermit 1981