Catholic Prayer: Prayer of St. Titus Brandsma

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Written by Titus Brandsma on February 12th-13th 1942, while a prisoner at Scheveningen. Translation: Susan Verkerk-Wheatley /Anne-Marie Bos © Titus Brandsma Instituut 2018

Prayer:

O Jesus, when I gaze on You
Once more alive, that I love You
And that your heart loves me too
Moreover as your special friend.

Although that calls me to suffer more
Oh, for me all suffering is good,
For in this way I resemble You
And this is the way to Your Kingdom.

I am blissful in my suffering
For I know it no more as sorrow
But the most ultimate elected lot
That unites me with You, o God.

O, just leave me here silently alone,
The chill and cold around me
And let no people be with me
Here alone I grow not weary.

For Thou, O Jesus, art with me
I have never been so close to You.
Stay with me, with me, Jesus sweet,
Your presence makes all things good for me.