Glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of virtue,
pure vessel of God's grace!
Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet.
I implore you in your loving kindness to
pray for me before the throne Of God.
To you I have recourse in the dangers
that daily surround me.
Shield me against my selfishness
and my indifference to God and to my neighbor.
Inspire me to imitate you in all things.
May your blessing be with me always,
so that I may see and serve Christ in
others and work for His kingdom.
Graciously obtain for me from God
those favors and graces which I
need so much in the trials, miseries
and afflictions of life.
Your heart was always full of love,
compassion and mercy toward those
who were afflicted or troubled in any way.
You never dismissed without consolation
and assistance anyone who had recourse to you.
I therefore invoke your powerful intercession,
confident in the hope that you will hear
my prayer and obtain for me the special
grace and favor I earnestly implore (name it).
Help me, great St. Benedict. to live and
die as a faithful child of God,
to run in the sweetness of His loving will
and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven.
Amen.
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