For the last couple weeks, we've been teaching the kids the Anima Christi. The easiest way for us to teach a new prayer is to simply add it to the prayer-roll, during morning or bedtime prayers. Since we're all together for bedtime prayers, we adopted it then, and the girls learned it in no time.
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within Your wounds hide me.
Suffer me not to be separated from thee.
From the malignant enemy defend me.
At the hour of my death call me
And bid me come to thee.
That with thy saints I may praise thee.
For ever and ever. Amen.
What a sublime and edifying prayer. If there is anything I need that's not included in this prayer, I can't imagine what it would be. I first began praying it several years ago, after learning it from one of our priests (he prayed it after Holy Communion at daily Mass) and it became my private post-Communion prayer. The visual image -- though it's more than a visual image, it's Truth at its most elemental -- of Christ hiding me within His wounds sustains me when nothing else can.
1 comment:
Hey Karen,
How cool is this, the Anima Christi has been my post-communion prayer for several years now too. This fall I finally managed to learn it in Latin! You're right, it's all there from salvation to inebriation, to stregthening to protection, to a desire to praise forever. I love it too.
LLiz
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