From our archives, originally posted March 2007
Lent Prayers: Prayer of Thomas Aquinas
Filed under: Saints & Church Fathers, Lent 2007, Lent Prayers — Karen B.
‘Almighty and everlasting God, you see that I am coming to the sacrament of your only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I come to it as a sick man to the life-giving healer, as one impure to the fount of mercy, as one blind to the light of eternal brightness, as one who is poor and destitute to the Master of heaven and earth. I turn therefore to the abundance of your immense generosity, begging that you will deign to heal my infirmity, cleanse my uncleanness, give light to my blindness, enrich my poverty, clothe my nakedness.’
Quoted in an essay by Yves Congar.
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