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Prayer
of Catholics United for the Faith
O
God our Father, who sent Your only-begotten Son to suffer
and to give His life for the life of His Church, rule, protect,
and nourish her continually, we beseech You.
Teach
us of Catholics United for the Faith to direct our zeal first
of all to the renewal of our own hearts.
Then,
if it be Your holy will to allow us to be in any way your
instruments in the wider renewal of Your Church, give us the
grace to know what services, small or great, You ask of us,
and let the Holy Spirit teach us to perform them in obedience,
patience, and charity, leaving entirely to You what fruits
they may bear.
We
ask this through the same Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You in the unity of that Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever. Amen.
—H.
Lyman Stebbins
Founder, Catholics United for the Faith
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From Our Founder
How different the holy Church would be this very day if, years ago, we had
been filled with a spirit of humility and compunction, of patience and ready
obedience, with the spirit of the Publican, who stood afar off, not
venturing to raise his eyes to heaven, but only saying, “Lord, be merciful
to me, a sinner” (Lk. 18:13). Or if, like St. Paul, we had begun by saying,
from the bottom of our hearts, “Lord, what would you have me do?” Or if,
like St. Catherine of Siena, we had been able to cry: “Thanks be to Thee,
Eternal Father! . . . I was sick and you gave me . . . a medicine against a
secret infirmity that I knew not of, in this precept that in no way can I
judge any rational creature, and particularly Thy servants, upon whom oft
times I, as one blind and sick with this infirmity, passed judgment under
the pretext of Thy honor and the salvation of souls.”
H. Lyman Stebbins
March 1987
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