Prayer of the Day
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From A Diary of Private Prayer
Accompany me to-day, O Spirit invisible, in all me goings,
but stay with me also when I am in my own home and among my kindred.
Forbid that I should fail to show to those nearest to me the sympathy and consideration which thy grace enables me to show to others with whom I have to do.
Forbid that I should refuse to my own household the courtesy and politeness which I think proper to show to strangers.
Let charity to-day begin at home.
Leave me not, O Gracious Presence, in such hours as I may to-day devote to the reading of books or of newspapers.
Guide my mind to choose right books, and, having chosen them, to read them in the right way.
When I read for profit, grant that all I read may lead me nearer to thyself.
When I read for recreation, grant that what I read may not lead me away from thee.
Let all my reading so refresh my mind that I may the more eagerly seek after whatsoever things are pure and fair and true.
Let me have a special sense of thy nearness to me, O God, in such times as I may be able to devote to prayer, to any public exercise of worship,
or to the receiving of the Blessed Sacrament; through Jesus Christ my Lord.
Amen.
