Traditional Catholic prayer
Prayer in Honor of the Resurrection
This Resurrection prayer asks for a new life of virtue and the joy and peace of the risen Jesus. Lasance prints it as the prayer in his Easter novena section.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 677.
Jesus, Who didst confound all Thine enemies by clothing in glory and splendor that body which had been the victim of the cruelty of man, give me grace to die to myself that I may rise again with Thee, and after Thy likeness lead a new, divine, immortal life: new, by change of conduct, divine by the generosity and purity of my love, immortal by perseverance in well doing. Work in my heart, O Lord, this happy change; make me pass from death to life, from darkness to light, from a life full of imperfections to a life perfect and worthy of Thee. Make me go on from light to light, from virtue to virtue, till I come at last to Thee, O God of virtue, source of all life, and of all light. To thee also I turn, O holy Virgin, Mother of Our Saviour, on this joyous feast; deign to make me partaker of that divine joy which thou didst feel on the blessed day of His Resurrection. Dry my tears and free my heart from all oppressive sadness. Let Thy risen Son enter into my heart, as through the closed doors, into the upper chamber. Let Him say to me, as to the apostles, “Peace be to thee”; let Him show to me, as to Thomas, His sacred wounds; let Him abide with me continually, and never more depart from me.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 677.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- This Resurrection prayer asks for a new life of virtue and the joy and peace of the risen Jesus. Lasance prints it as the prayer in his Easter novena section.
- Prayer intention
- Newness of life, perseverance, and Easter joy.
- When to pray
- During Eastertide or personal meditation on the Resurrection.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 677. 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 in Honor of the Resurrection
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 677.
Jesus, Who didst confound all Thine enemies by clothing in glory and splendor that body which had been the victim of the cruelty of man, give me grace to die to myself that I may rise again with Thee, and after Thy likeness lead a new, divine, immortal life: new, by change of conduct, divine by the generosity and purity of my love, immortal by perseverance in well doing. Work in my heart, O Lord, this happy change; make me pass from death to life, from darkness to light, from a life full of imperfections to a life perfect and worthy of Thee. Make me go on from light to light, from virtue to virtue, till I come at last to Thee, O God of virtue, source of all life, and of all light. To thee also I turn, O holy Virgin, Mother of Our Saviour, on this joyous feast; deign to make me partaker of that divine joy which thou didst feel on the blessed day of His Resurrection. Dry my tears and free my heart from all oppressive sadness. Let Thy risen Son enter into my heart, as through the closed doors, into the upper chamber. Let Him say to me, as to the apostles, “Peace be to thee”; let Him show to me, as to Thomas, His sacred wounds; let Him abide with me continually, and never more depart from me.