LITANY FOR HELP

 

Most holy and most merciful God, the Strength of the weak, the Rest of the weary, the Comfort of the sorrowful, the Saviour of the sinful, and the Refuge of thy children in every time of need, hear us while we pray for thy help in all the circumstances and experiences of our life: When our hearts are growing cold and dead, and we are losing our vision of thy face, and living as if life had no spiritual reality:

Help us, O God.

When the evil memories of the past trouble us, and we

mourn over early dreams and hopes unrealized, over light within

us turned to darkness, and strength to weakness:

Help us, O God.

When we are tempted to mean and wicked ways and sin puts on the allurements which make it less sinful in our sight:

Help us, O God.

When we are called to difficult duty, to work in loneliness among men, and to bear burdens that are hard to be borne:

Help us, O God.

When we are weary of our work and think it fruitless, and duty is painful because it seems unprofitable:

Help us, O God.

When the unknown future troubles us, and amid our fears and anxieties we forget the eternal love and care:

Help us, O God.

When the last darkness doses about our life, and heart and flesh faint and fail, and vain is the help of man:

Help us, O God.

O God, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright; grant to us such strength and protection, as may support us in all dangers, and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

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