Prayer of the Month
Thou, O heavenly Guide of our devotion and our love,
by teaching us to pray has shewed us that
Prayer is our Treasury where all blessings are kept,
our Armoury where all our strength and weapons are stored,
the only great preservative,
and the very vital heat of divine love.
Give me grace to call on thee at all times by diligent prayer.
Lord, I know my devotion has daily many unavoidable and necessary interruptions,
and I cannot always be actually praying.
All I can do is to beg of thy love to keep my heart always
in an habitual disposition to devotion,
and in mindfulness of thy divine presence.
As thy infinite love is ever-streaming in blessings on me,
O let my soul be ever breathing love to thee.
Amen.
(from Exposition of the Catechism by Thomas Ken) Bishop of Bath and Wells 1685-1691)