Traditional Catholic prayer
Suscipe: Take, Lord, and Receive
A prayer from St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, offering memory, understanding, will, and all that one possesses to God, and asking for His love and grace.
Source: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1914), St. Ignatius of Loyola; translated by Elder Mullan, S.J., page 120.
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my intellect, and all my will, all that I have and possess. Thou gavest it to me: to Thee, Lord, I return it! All is Thine, dispose of it according to all Thy will. Give me Thy love and grace, for this is enough for me.
About this prayer
Prayer source
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1914), St. Ignatius of Loyola; translated by Elder Mullan, S.J., page 120.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- The Suscipe comes from St. Ignatius’s Contemplation to Gain Love in the Spiritual Exercises. This version preserves Elder Mullan’s 1914 translation, including “intellect” rather than a later rendering.
- Prayer intention
- Offering one’s whole self to God and asking for love and grace.
- When to pray
- During a retreat or a deliberate personal offering to God.
- Connection with a saint
St. Ignatius of Loyola: From the saint’s writings. This offering is contained in St. Ignatius’s own Spiritual Exercises, translated from the autograph by Elder Mullan in 1914. Read the source.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1914), St. Ignatius of Loyola; translated by Elder Mullan, S.J., page 120. 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
Suscipe: Take, Lord, and Receive
Source: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1914), St. Ignatius of Loyola; translated by Elder Mullan, S.J., page 120.
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my intellect, and all my will, all that I have and possess. Thou gavest it to me: to Thee, Lord, I return it! All is Thine, dispose of it according to all Thy will. Give me Thy love and grace, for this is enough for me.