"Dear Jesus, help me to spread your fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Your Spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of You.
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 You, O Lord!
Stay with me; then I shall begin to shin as You are, so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine; it will be You shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching - not by words but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen."
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I love that prayer Emma! It's the one the Missionaries of Charity pray every day. So beautiful! The song the Little Flowers sing is also sung by the MC's daily: "Sweet Lord, thy thirst for souls I satiate with my burning love all for Thee. My chalice will be ever full, sacrifices made all for Thee. Ever more I will quench Thy thirst Lord for souls, in union with Mary our Queen, I will quench Thy thirst."
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