Composed by Newman, this prayer was prayed every morning by Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity. It expresses the spirituality she lived in the slums of Calcutta.
Catholic · Modern (18th c.–today)
Radiating Christ
Dear Jesus, help us to spread thy fragrance everywhere we go.
Flood our souls with thy spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess our whole being so utterly
that our lives may only be a radiance of thine.
Shine through us and be so in us
that every soul we come in contact with
may feel thy presence in our soul.
Let them look up and see no longer us, but only Jesus!
Stay with us, and then we shall begin to shine as thou shinest,
so to shine as to be a light to others.
The light, O Jesus, will be all from thee;
none of it will be ours;
it will be thou shining on others through us. Amen.