JESUS OUR TRUSTED FRIEND;

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name;

thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses

 as we forgive those who trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Jesus, you are my true friend, my only friend.

You take a part in all my misfortunes;

You take them on yourself;

You know how to change them into blessings.

You listen to me with the greatest kindness

when I relate my troubles to you,

and you always have balm to pour on my wounds.

I find you at all times, I find you everywhere,

You never go away;

if I have to change my dwelling, I find you wherever I go.

You are never weary of listening to me,

You are never tired of doing me good.

I am certain of being beloved by you if I love you;

my goods are nothing to you,

and by bestowing yours on me you never grow poor.

However miserable I may be,

no one nobler or wiser or even holier

can come between you and me,

and deprive me of your friendship;

and death, which tears us away from all other friends,

will unite me forever to you.

All the humiliation attached to old age

or to the loss of honour will never detach you from me.

On the contrary, I shall never enjoy you more fully,

and you will never be closer to me’

than when everything seems to conspire against me,

to overwhelm me, and to cast me down.

You bear with all my faults with extreme patience,

and even my want of fidelity and ingratitude

do not wound you to such a degree

as to make you unwilling to receive me back

when I return to you.

Jesus, grant that I may die praising you,

that I may die loving you,

that I may die for the love of you. Amen.

Glory be, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end. Amen.