Traditional Catholic prayer
Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study
Seeking truth honestly and putting learning at the service of God.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 781.
O merciful God, grant that I may eagerly desire, carefully search out, truthfully acknowledge, and ever perfectly fulfil all things which are pleasing to Thee, to the praise and glory of Thy name. Amen.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 781.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- This short Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study asks for the desire, care, honesty, and perseverance to seek and fulfill what pleases God. It is the form printed in Lasance’s With God (1911).
- Prayer intention
- Seeking truth honestly and putting learning at the service of God.
- When to pray
- Before study, reading, or work that calls for careful thought.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 781. 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 of St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 781.
O merciful God, grant that I may eagerly desire, carefully search out, truthfully acknowledge, and ever perfectly fulfil all things which are pleasing to Thee, to the praise and glory of Thy name. Amen.