Your brother here was dead .
He was lost and is found.
Our past is lost, we can barely look ahead.
The truth is hidden and too profound.

At Walsingham, reading the Litany of Humility.
Attributed to Cardinal Merry del Val.
It leads to a strange sense of tranquility.
In any setback, it’s good for morale.

From the desire to be esteemed deliver me Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled deliver me Jesus.
From desire of being preferred to others deliver me Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted deliver me Jesus.

From the fear of being calumniated deliver me Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed, deliver me Jesus.

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From esteem’d desire
Please deliver us Jesus
From extolled desire

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See Luke 15 : 1-32