Prayer of St. John Gabriel Perboyre to Jesus

A series of articles on
Roman Catholic
Prayers to Jesus

Overview of Prayers
Anima Christi
Morning offering
Sacred Heart prayer
Sacred Heart Consecration
Shoulder Wound
Vianney's prayer
You are Christ
Perboyre's prayer
Montfort's prayer
Crucifix prayer

Devotions to Christ
Holy Face • Sacred Heart • Eucharistic adoration • Acts of Reparation • Divine Mercy • Holy Name • Holy Wounds • Rosary of Holy Wounds • Stations of the Cross • Precious Blood • Infant of Prague

Saint John Gabriel Perboyre, priest and martyr composed this prayer in the 19th century.[1]

This transformational prayer builds towards Saint Paul's statement in Galatians 2:20: "I live - now not I - But Christ lives in me".[2][3]

Words of the prayer

O my Divine Saviour,
Transform me into Yourself.
May my hands be the hands of Jesus.
Grant that every faculty of my body
May serve only to glorify You.
Above all,
Transform my soul and all its powers
So that my memory, will and affection
May be the memory, will and affections
Of Jesus.
I pray You
To destroy in me
All that is not of You.
Grant that I may live
But in You, by You and for You,
So that I may truly say,
With St. Paul,
"I live - now not I -
But Christ lives in me".

Notes

  1. ^ Mass on Sunday: And Other Ways of Being Catholic by Charles Edward Miller 2004 ISBN 0809142376 Paulist Press pages 45-46
  2. ^ Galatians: Free in Christ by Kevin Perrotta 2006 ISBN 082942007X page 53
  3. ^ Bible Gateway

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