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Augustinian Prayer of inspiration at the beginning of any work or activity

by OAR

At the Beginning of Work
May your grace, O Lord, inspire our works, sustain them, and ac-company them, so that all our work may originate in you as its source and tend toward you as its end. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

At the Beginning of Prayer
O God, you have enlightened the hearts of your children with the light of your Holy Spirit; make us docile to his inspirations so that we may find pleasure in what is good and enjoyment in his conso-lation. Amen.

Conclusion
We take refuge under your protection, holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but always deliver us from every evil, o glorious and blessed Virgin. We beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to defend us, your family, from all adversity and to keep us always faithful and devoted to you.

At the Beginning of a Meeting
O God, supreme unity and true love, grant that we your children, through the intercession of Saint Augustine, may be of one mind and one heart, so that your Church, founded on truth, may perse-vere in perfect unity. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Faith That Works Through Love
“. . . No one ever arrives at true life unless such meditation is car-ried on in the faith that works through love. I think it necessary to stress this point, in case anyone imagines that he will gain life be-cause he has committed the whole law to memory and very fre-quently sung it by heart, never keeping quiet about its precepts yet not living according to those precepts either. No one must think that by so doing he has followed the psalmist’s example. No such person is in a position to claim, I meditate on your law, or to expect the outcome for which the psalmist begged as the fruit of his constant meditation: May your manifold mercies come upon me, and I shall live. This is not the case. The meditation referred to by the psalm is a lover’s meditation, the pondering of one who is so much in love that the charity fostered in his meditation will never grow cold, however thickly the sins of others may swarm about him” (Expositions of the Psalms 118, XIX, 4).

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Augustinian Prayer of inspiration at the beginning of any work or activity