Saint Catherine of Siena Prayer
O My Savior,
Saint Catherine took her faith out into the world
to make a difference for Your
Kingdom.
She served as a spiritual guide to many,
she affected politics,
and she convinced the pope to return
the Church’s leadership
to Rome.
By word and deed,
she taught that Christians should influence
the world with their spiritual values.
I ask her to pray for me,
that
I will recognize the opportunities around me
in which I can assert my Christian Faith
to help shape society.
Lord, fill me with a desire
to get involved
in the world’s affairs,
and show me how to do it well.
Saint Catherine, pray for me.
Amen.
A Prayer of
Saint Catherine of Siena
I see that you have endowed your vicar by nature
with a fearless heart;
so I humbly, imploringly
beg you
to pour the light beyond nature
into the eye of his understanding.
For unless this light,
acquired through pure affection for
virtue,
is joined with it,
a heart such as his tends to be proud.
Today again let every selfish love be cut away
from those enemies of
yours
and from the vicar
and from us all,
so that we may be able to forgive those enemies
when you bend their hardness.
For them, that
they may humble themselves
and obey this lord of ours,
I offer you my life
from this moment
and for whenever you wish me to lay it down
for
your glory.
Amen.
