Devotional: Radiating Christ...

Dear Jesus,
Help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go.

Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.

Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly

that all my life may only be a radiance of Yours.

Shine through me and be so in me

that every soul I come in contact with

may feel Your presence in my soul.
Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus!

Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as You shine,

so to shine as to be a light to others;
the light, O Jesus, will be all from You;
none of it will be mine:

it will be You shining on others through me.

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best:

by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching,

not by words, but by my example,

by the catching force,

the sympathetic influence of what I do,

the evident fullness of the love my heart bears for You. Amen.

...by John Henry Cardinal Newman image

This prayer was a favorite of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and recited by her and her sisters daily after Mass. -PD (Thanks Catherine in Australia!)