Prayer for Friday of the First Week of Lent

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Prayer Source = Jonathan Montaldo, compiler, Lent and Easter Wisdom from Thomas Merton:  Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with Thomas Merton’s Own Words (Liguori, MO:  Liguori, 2007), page 21

Prayer by Jonathan Montaldo

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I shall understand your sacred mission to the world

only by acknowledging my poverty,

my imprisonment in a daily round of desires for empty things,

my habitual blindness to who I am

and who you truly are for me.

Help me understand your work in me.

You have come to liberate me just as I am.

You love me just as I am.

You will heal me just as I am.

Today I know my sins and renounce them.

I affirm my will to follow your way

and be more truly your disciple.

http://lenteaster.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/devotion-for-the-eighth-and-ninth-days-of-lent-lcms-daily-lectionary/

http://lenteaster.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/ninth-day-of-lent/