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The Prayer of Abandonment




                                                                                       © Gerard P. Rooney

of

Brother Charles of Jesus


Father, I abandon myself into your hands.

Do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you.

I am ready for all.

I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures.

I ask no more than this, O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul.

I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,

for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into your hands

without reserve and with boundless confidence,

for you are my Father.

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This prayer sums up the entire life and spirituality of Blessed Brother Charles of Jesus.

The prayer is taken from one of his meditations and is prefaced as follows:

"23,46      'My Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.'   This is the last prayer of our Master, our Beloved.  May it be ours.  And may it be not only that of our last moment but of our every moment.'"

To see the Prayer in his own handwriting and the original French: : the Secular Fraternity of Charles de Foucauld.  Click on Priere d'Abandon.


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