A prayer by St. "padre" Pio

[catholictiger]

I stumbled upon this prayer one day by padre pio.

Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.

Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.

Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life, and without You, I am without fervor.

Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light, and without You, I am in darkness.

Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.

Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.

Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much, and always be in Your company.

Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.

Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is, I wish it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love.

Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close, and life passes, death, judgement, eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches. I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!

Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You.

Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.

Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.

Stay with me, Jesus, I do not ask for divine consolation, because I do not merit it, but, the gift of Your Presence, oh yes, I ask this of You!

Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for. Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.

With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity.

Amen

becoming one of my more favorite prayers

got it from this link bellow.

wdtprs.com/blog/2011/06/a-prayer-by-st-padre-pio/

 

[Edward_H]

Wonderful prayer. Thanks for sharing.

I was at Mass the other day…and the visiting priest seemed a bit uncomfortable giving the homily, staying close to his prepared notes. I figured that “all priests have different gifts”…his points were good, just sort of awkwardly given. No worries.

Then after Communion he sat down briefly…and out come a wonderful, spontaneous, 4 minute meditation on receiving Our Lord into our lives, the way Peter received Jesus into his boat. It was profound, spontaneous, enormously coherent…I was blown away. Wish I had a recorder. It resembled St Padre Pio’s prayer here in its force.

 

[dailey]

Lovely prayer…