Prayers to St. Jerome?

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I’m a…ummm…well, I’m not really anything. Ever since I started studying what the Catholic Church was all about, I can’t call myself Protestant anymore. Anyway, I’m one of “those.”

My first purchase was a book on the Early Fathers of the Church, and was surprised to learn that they were real people with real…personality traits. I was particularly taken with St. Jerome, who apparently had the remarkable talent of waking up on the wrong side of the bed every day of his life. We have a lot in common, and I ask for his guidance and intercession quite often on the theory that 2,000-years of harp playing might have mellowed him out just a tad, but that he might still recognise a kindred spirit.

Anybody ever heard of prayers or devotions to St. Jerome asking for help in “living more gently?”

 

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I’m a…ummm…well, I’m not really anything. Ever since I started studying what the Catholic Church was all about, I can’t call myself Protestant anymore. Anyway, I’m one of “those.”

My first purchase was a book on the Early Fathers of the Church, and was surprised to learn that they were real people with real…personality traits. I was particularly taken with St. Jerome, who apparently had the remarkable talent of waking up on the wrong side of the bed every day of his life. We have a lot in common, and I ask for his guidance and intercession quite often on the theory that 2,000-years of harp playing might have mellowed him out just a tad, but that he might still recognise a kindred spirit.

Anybody ever heard of prayers or devotions to St. Jerome asking for help in “living more gently?”

Prayer to St. Jerome

For Insight

Through your anger and confrontations you remind us that we all have a duty to confront others from time to time. You also remind us that we have a duty to examine ourselves and confront our own weaknesses and harmful behaviours. Your life teaches that I must accept others for who they are. You taught of the danger of self-righteousness; of the importance of reflecting upon one of Jesus’ most insightful teachings: “Let the man who has no sin on his conscience throw the first stone.” In the light of your teachings, Saint Jerome, help me to see my own self clearly. Help me to confront my own biases and to act to change others only out of love. If I see that I have the duty to confront another, I ask you to be with me during those necessary but unpleasant moments of confrontation. Help me to remember that love alone can make changes for the good. Amen.