Dear Jesus,

 

Help us to spread Your fragrance everywhere we go.

Flood our souls with your spirit and life.

Penetrate and possess our whole beings, so utterly,

          that our lives may only be a radiance of Yours.

Shine through us, and be so in us,

          that every soul we come in contact with

          may feel Your presence in our soul.

Let them look up and see no longer us, but only

Jesus.

Stay with us, and then we shall begin to shine

          as You shine;

So to shine as to be a light to others.

The light, O Jesus, will be all from You,

          none of it will be ours.

It will be You shining on others through us.

Let us thus praise You in the way you love best

          by shining on those around us.

Let us preach You without preaching,

          Not by words but by our example.

By the catching force, the sympathetic influence

          of what we do,

the evident fullness of the love of our hearts bear to

You. Amen

 

 

John Henry Cardinal Newman