The Universal Prayer

The Universal Prayer is attributed to Pope Clement XI. Spend some time with God and truly open your heart to listening. The White Robed Monks of St Benedict offer the Sacraments to all those who ask without judgment.

Transcript

The universal prayer attributed to Pope Clement XI.

I believe in you.

Increase my faith.

Trust in you.

Strengthen my trust.

I love you.

Let me love you more and more.

I am sorry for my sins.

Deepen my sorrow.

I worship you as my first beginning.

I long for you as my last end.

I praise you as my constant helper.

And I call on you as my loving protector.

Guide me by your wisdom.

Correct me with your justice.

Comfort me with your mercy.

Protect me with your power.

I offer you,

Lord,

My thoughts to be fixed on you.

To have you for their theme.

My actions to reflect my love for you.

My sufferings to be endured in greater glory.

And to do what you ask of me in the way you ask.

For as long as you ask.

Because you ask it.

Enlighten my understanding.

Strengthen my will.

Purify my heart.

And make me holy.

Me to repent of my past sins and to resist temptation in the future.

Help me to rise above my human weaknesses and to grow stronger as a Christian.

Let me love you,

My Lord,

And see myself as I really am.

A pilgrim in this world.

A Christian called to respect and love all whose lives I touch.

Those under my authority.

My friends and my enemies.

Help me to conquer anger with gentleness.

Greed by generosity.

Apathy by fervor.

Help me to forget myself and reach out toward others.

Make me prudent in planning.

Courageous in taking risks.

Make me patient in suffering.

Keep me,

Lord,

Attentive at prayer.

Temperate in food and drink.

Diligent in my work.

Firm in my good intentions.

Let my conscience be clear.

My conduct without fault.

My speech blameless.

My life well-ordered.

Put me on guard against my human weaknesses.

Let me cherish your love for me.

Keep your law and come at last to your salvation.

Teach me to realize that this world is passing.

That my true future is the happiness of heaven.

That life on earth is short and the life to come eternal.

Help me to prepare for death with a proper fear of judgment.

But a greater trust in your goodness.

Lead me safely through death to the endless joy of heaven.

And this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Reviews

Brief yet powerful. A prayer most needed during our times. Amen 🙏

Thank you Father, you never cease to help me find the right prayer or words to remind myself that I am only hear because of Him. I appreciate these words today because they will help give me the courage and the strength to get through what we are doing today. Thanks be to God. Amen. 🙏🏻

Lovely!

Amen!

Dear Father Carel,

This prayer fed my heart.

With gratitude and love,
Stacey

Amen 🙏🏻
May You have a beautiful Christmas 🎄

What a beautiful prayer this one is, with such soothing background music and the lovely chirps from the birds.

This prayer brought tears in my eyes — something needed to be set free inside of me, and I just welcomed it.

Thank you ever so much, Father Carel-Piet, for stirring up dorment emotions in me that needed to come out and be set free, with this prayer. 🙏🏻
Amen! 🙏🏻

Father your prayer/meditations are beautiful (technically and spiritually) I will be listening to this one everyday. It is a perfect prayer as i walk through the valley of death with my grief. i esp liked the line, grant me patience in my suffering. But every word had meaning for me in this difficult and painful time in my life 🤍🕊

Amen. Thank you father, I need this prayer today.🙏🏾