The season of Lent is a time to face our sinfulness and to go to God for mercy and forgiveness. The following lines are selected from a prayer of Angela Merici, our founder, as she did just this soul searching to which the days of Lent invite us.

“My Lord, light up the darkness of my heart and give me the grace rather to die than ever to offend your Divine Majesty.

“Lord, strengthen my affections and my senses. Do not let them have mastery over me nor turn me away from the glory shining on your face which is the consolation of every suffering heart. . . .

“Grant me, therefore, Lord, pardon for all the many offenses and all the wrongdoings which I have committed from the day of my holy Baptism up to this moment.  . . .

“. . . Receive, then, Lord, all my thoughts, words and deeds and, finally, all that I possess in myself and outside myself; all this I place as an offering at the feet of your Divine Majesty, beseeching you graciously to receive it in spite of my unworthiness. Amen.”

Angela Merici
Rule, Chapter 6

Reflection provided by Sr. Maureen Grady