Prayer to St. Benedict
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 neighbour. 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 favours and graces which I need so much in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life. Tour heart was always full of love, compassion and mercy towards those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. You never dismissed without consolation anyone who had recourse to you. I therefore invoke your powerful intersession, confident in the hope that you will hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favour 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 obtain the eternal happiness of heaven. Amen.