Prayer of Commitment

In the true faith may we remain;
in Jesus may we find hope;
against exploitation of the poor may we help;
against our faults may we fight,
our bad habits abandon;
the name of our neighbor may we defend;
in the world of mercy may we advance;
those in misery may we help;
every danger of sin may we avoid;
in holy charity may we grow strong;
in the well of grace of confession may we wash;
may we deserve the help of the saints,
the friendship our brother Cuthbert win.

Amen.

--from Celtic Daily Prayer, Book One: The Journey Begins, from prayers relating to Cuthbert of Northumbria (635-687), p. 301.


Image: illustration from Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert, another monk of Landisfarne who was a missionary to the Picts.