Deliver Me Jesus....

...from the desire to be praised, honored,

glorified, preferred, consulted, or approved.

Deliver me, Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated,

criticized, forgotten, ridiculed, maltreated,

and from the fear of what others will think.

Oh, Jesus, give me the grace to desire: that others

would be loved and esteemed ahead of me;

that in the eyes of the world they would

increase and I decrease, and be praised while I pass by

unnoticed; that others would be preferred in all

situations; that others would become more

than myself -- in order that I would be as

holy as You want me to be.

-Charles de Foucauld-