Category: Prayers and Devotions

GREAT and glorious God, who alone art worthy of our love and service, cure me of, and preserve me from, the sin and vanity of admiring this world.

Give me, O Lord, a perfect indifference for the world, its profits, pleasures, honours, fame, and all its idols. Give me the eye of faith, that I may see it just as it is; the vanity of its promises, the folly of its pleasures, the unprofitableness of its rewards, the multitude of its snares, and the danger of its temptations.

Give me grace to renounce all covetous desires, all love of riches and pleasures; to desire only what is necessary, and to be content with what Thou, O Lord, thinkest so. Grant that I may resist every temptation to the love of creatures, lest they steal my heart from Thee, my God, whom I desire to love with all my soul; so that I may cheerfully part with all these things when thou requirest it of me. And that I may ever be prepared to do so, dispose me to a temperance in all things, and to lay up my treasure in heaven.

Represent Thyself unto me as my true happiness, that I may love Thee with all my heart, and soul, and strength; so that when I am called out of this world, I may rejoice in hope of going to the paradise of God, where the souls of the faithful enjoy rest and felicity, in hopes of a blessed resurrection, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: Compiled from Ancient Liturgies for the times of trouble. By Bp. Wilson. 1848.

O Jesus, detach us more and more from this world whose figure passes away with its vain labors, its counterfeit glories, and its false pleasures. As you told us, as in the days of Noah, as in Sodom, men continue to eat and drink, to be absorbed in traffic and enjoyment; no more thinking of the nearness of your advent than their predecessors were concerned with the fire of heaven and the flood, until the instant which destroyed them all. Let them rejoice and send each other gifts, as your Apocalypse says, at the thought that it is done with Christ and his Church. While they oppress your holy city in a thousand ways and impose upon it trials which it has never known, they do not suspect that it is the marriage of eternity that they are advancing; all that was wanting to the Bride was the jewels of these new trials, and the bright purple with which her last martyrs will adorn her. And, with the Spirit and the Bride, we will say to you in the ardour of our souls too long altered: “Come, O Jesus! come and consummate us in love through eternal union, to the glory of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in endless ages! » — Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year.

“Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God, abideth for ever.” — 1 John 2:15-17

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