Traditional Catholic prayer
Prayer for Grace to Do the Will of God
Lasance identifies this prayer as coming from The Imitation of Christ, book III, chapter 15. It asks Jesus for grace to desire and accomplish what pleases Him.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 823.
Grant me, most kind Jesus, thy grace, that it may abide with me, labor with me, and persevere with me to the end.
Grant me ever to desire and to will that which is the more acceptable to Thee, and pleases Thee best.
May Thy will be mine, and may my will ever follow Thine, and be in closest accord with it.
May it be my one care to will and to be unwilling in union with Thee, and may I be unable to will or not will anything but what Thou willest or willest not.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 823.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- Lasance identifies this prayer as coming from The Imitation of Christ, book III, chapter 15. It asks Jesus for grace to desire and accomplish what pleases Him.
- Prayer intention
- Grace, perseverance, and agreement with God’s will.
- When to pray
- Before decisions or daily duties, or when struggling to accept a difficult responsibility.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 823. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
Prayer for Grace to Do the Will of God
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 823.
Grant me, most kind Jesus, thy grace, that it may abide with me, labor with me, and persevere with me to the end.
Grant me ever to desire and to will that which is the more acceptable to Thee, and pleases Thee best.
May Thy will be mine, and may my will ever follow Thine, and be in closest accord with it.
May it be my one care to will and to be unwilling in union with Thee, and may I be unable to will or not will anything but what Thou willest or willest not.