Prayers of the Middle Ages: Light from a Thousand Years

Prayers

For Grace

O Lord Jesus, grant us Thy grace and give unto us time for repentance.
We would keep Thy commandments and do Thy bidding, choose the better
part and no longer follow after evil; grant us Thy strength that this
may so be, O loving Saviour for Thine own name’s sake. Amen.

                                                             —Dan Jeremy




                       THIRTEENTH CENTURY PRAYERS


                   Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace

  Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
  Where hate rules, let me bring love,
  Where malice, forgiveness,
  Where disputes, reconciliation,
  Where error, truth,
  Where doubt, belief,
  Where despair, hope,
  Where darkness, Thy light,
  Where sorrow, joy!

  O Master, let me strive more to comfort others than to be comforted,
  To understand others than to be understood,
  To love others, more than to be loved!

  For he who gives, receives,
  He who forgets himself, finds,
  He who forgives, receives forgiveness,
  And dying, we rise again to eternal life. Amen.

                                                      —Francis of Assisi


                    The Daily Prayer of St. Francis

My God, and my all, who art Thou, sweetest Lord, my God? And who am I, a
poor worm, Thy servant? Holiest Lord, I would love Thee! Sweetest Lord,
I would love Thee! Lord, my God, I give to Thee all my heart and body,
and vehemently desire, if I might know how, to do more for Thy love.
Amen.

                                                      —Francis of Assisi


                                 Praise

Now to that God, who has suffered so much for us, who at one giving has
conferred on us so many good things, and will yet confer so many more,
to this God let every creature who is in heaven or upon the earth, in
the sea or in the depth of the abyss, render praise, glory, honour and
blessing. He is himself our virtue and our strength. He alone is good,
lofty, almighty, admirable, and glorious; the only holy, worthy of
praise and blessed through ages of ages. Amen.

                                                      —Francis of Assisi


                    For the Knowledge of God’s Will

God, almighty, eternal, righteous, and merciful, give to us poor sinners
to do for Thy sake all that we know of Thy will, and to will always what
pleases Thee, so that inwardly purified, enlightened, and kindled by the
fire of the Holy Spirit, we may follow in the footprints of Thy
well-beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

                                                      —Francis of Assisi


                              Thanksgiving

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Prayers of the Middle Ages: Light from a Thousand Years

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