A PRAYER TO CHRIST OUR MODEL
Lord, I have discovered
that the ideal way of our acting is your way of acting.
Give me that sensus Christi about which St. Paul speaks:
that I may feel with Your feelings, with the sentiments of your heart.
May I learn from You and from Your ways,
as St. Ignatius did: how to eat and drink;
hot to attend banquets;
how to act when hungry and thirsty,
when tired from the ministry, when in need of rest or sleep.
Teach me how to be compassionate to the suffering,
to the poor, the blind, the lame, and the lepers.
Teach me Your way of looking at people:
As You glanced at Peter after his denial,
as You penetrated the heart of the rich young man
and the heart of the disciples.
Give me that grace, that sensus Christi, Your very heartbeat,
that I may live all of my life, interiorly and exteriorly,
proceeding and discerning with Your mortal life.
Teach us Your way so that it becomes our way today,
so that we may come to the great ideal of St. Ignatius:
to be companions of Jesus, collaborators in the work of redemption,
each one of us an alter Christus. Amen.
