Dear Jesus,
Help us to spread your
fragrance everywhere we go.
Flood our souls with
your spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess
our whole being so utterly
That our lives may
only be a radiance of yours…
Let us thus praise you
in the way you love best
By shining on those
around us.
Let us preach you [...] by
our example
By the catching force
The sympathetic
influence of what we do
The evident fullness
of the love our hearts bear to you.
Amen.
- Mother Teresa
(Painting: "Christ Bearing the Cross, with a Dominican Friar," by Barna da Siena, c.1340)