The Grace to Work For the things we Pray For

Posted by Patricia Cecilia in perseverence, prayer, work

My husband and I are admirers of St. Thomas More (which is, from the Heavenly Point of View, very funny on my part, since I was raised Anglican but detested Henry VIII), and I recently found this prayer of St. Thomas' on a Catholic homeschooling blog:

O Lord, give us a mind that is humble, quiet, peaceable, patient and charitable, and a taste of your Holy Spirit in all our thoughts, words, and deeds.

O Lord, give us a lively faith, a firm hope, a fervent charity, a love of you. Take from us all lukewarmness in meditation and all dullness in prayer.

Give us fervor and delight in thinking of you, your grace, and your tender compassion toward us.

Give us, good Lord, the grace to work for the things we pray for.

— St. Thomas More, 1478-1535

How often do we fall into the mode of "God give me patience and I need it RIGHT NOW!"? :-)

Certainly there are things for which we pray that only Our Lord can work on, but for my part I see places where I need to be doing my share of the work, by His grace.

Small act by small act...stitch by stitch...brick by brick...note by note...

Gratias ago tibi, Liz, at http://hfclassicalacademy.blogspot.com/
for St. Thomas More's prayer.

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As for the use of the 1962 Missal as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgy of the Mass, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this Missal was never juridically abrogated and, consequently, in principle, was always permitted.

… it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them.

What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.

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«Summorum Pontificum» (7/7/2007)

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