“Let nothing disturb you,

Let nothing frighten you,

All things are passing.

God never changes.

Patience obtains all.

He who has God lacks nothing.

For God alone suffices.”

(St. Teresa of Avila 10/15)

Dear Father, may we never be afraid or be disturbed.

May we find our true peace in You and never be perturbed.

Everything will pass away.  But not the things above.

All things may be passing, but not faith and hope and love.

Let us think about the things that won’t one day disappear.

Let faith and hope and love be what gets us through the year.

So many things are changing, but to this we now acclaim:

You, Lord, are unchanging.  You forever stay the same.

So let us cling now to our Lord.  We lack nothing with our God.

He will suffice for all our needs on this rough road we trod.

Dear Father, help us grow in patience, as on Thee we now wait.

Help us, Father, on this journey toward heaven’s holy narrow gate.

Lord Jesus, we have lost loved ones.  Do not abandon them, dear Lord.

We ask You now to seek them.  May it be You Whom they adore.

Go to them, dear Lord Jesus. Help them be no more afraid.

Show to them Your divine love and the reason they were made.

Help them see You never change.  You never pass away.

Your steady arms will lift and carry them throughout the day.

Give them now the grace, dear Lord, to heed this sure and sound advice:

With God, we can lack nothing.  God and His love suffice.