Prayers of the Saints
Prayer of a Soul Taken with Love (St. John of the Cross)
From the Sayings of Light and Love, written by St.
Mine are the heavens and mine is the earth.
Mine are the nations, the just are mine,
and mine the sinners.
The angels are mine, and the Mother of God,
and all things are mine;
and God himself is mine and for me,
because Christ is mine and all for me.
What do you ask, then, and seek, my soul?
Yours is all of this, and all is for you.
Do not engage yourself in something less,
nor pay heed to the crumbs
that fall from your Father's table.
Go forth and exult in your glory.
Hide yourself in it and rejoice,
and you will obtain the supplications of your heart.
Sayings of Light and Love, no. 27
About the prayer
John of the Cross for the nuns under his direction. It is the boldest statement of Christian confidence in his work, written by a man who composed most of his poetry in a prison cell in Toledo.
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