Jesus, Lord and Master, remember how I was in my youth. How little I knew, perceived, felt, how unprepared I was. And yet you have been generous to me, firmly holding me with your grace and drawing me to yourself. What you have done for me, please do today for my brother. Let him hear you in his heart. And just as there is friendship between you and me, let there be friendship between you and this young brother.
Lord, you have already overcome my brother once. I ask you to conquer him again and again, ten times, a hundred times. Crush him to dust and save him!
(Father Jerome /1907–1985/, monk of the Trappist monastery in Sept-Fons, Good Influences)
