Almighty God, have mercy on ... all that bear
me evil will and would me harm, and their faults and mine together, by
such easy, tender, merciful means as thy infinite wisdom best can devise;
vouchsafe to amend and redress and make us saved souls in Heaven together,
where we may ever live and love together with thee and thy blessed saints,
O glorious Trinity, for the bitter passion of our sweet Saviour Christ.
Amen. Lord, give me patience in tribulation and grace in everything to
conform my will to thine, that I may truly say, "Fiat voluntas tua, sicut
in caelo et in terra." ["Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."]
The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labor for.
- St. Thomas More
(from "The Paulist Prayer
Book" compiled by Frank R. Desiderio, CSP, Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ,
2000)