When praise has started to matter too much, or when contempt has.
Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val’s litany. It is not a wish to be useless. It is a wish to be free of the need to be seen. Pray it slowly. The response each time is: Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
Day 1 of 3
From the desire of being esteemed
From the desire of being esteemed, delivered. From the desire of being loved, extolled, honoured, praised, preferred, consulted, approved: deliver me, Jesus. Then the grace to desire that others be esteemed more than I.
