Shine Through Me

A volunteer places a wooden chair in a circle in a parish hall lit by afternoon sunlight.
A quiet act of service can let another light shine through.

Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your Fragrance everywhere I go. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me and be so in me, that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your Presence in my soul: let them look up and see no longer me--but only Jesus.

Saint John Neuman

Further reading

The prayer asks that Christ’s presence become visible in the life of the person praying. John Henry Newman’s Meditations and Devotions offers a wider setting for that desire, bringing together prayers and meditations on life with Christ.

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