Prayer Against
Covetousness
O Lord Jesus Christ, who though Thou wast rich yet for our sakes didst
become poor, grant that all over-eagerness and covetousness of earthly
goods
may die in us, and the desire of heavenly things may live and grow in us;
keep us from all idle and vain expenditures, that we may always have to
give
to him that needeth, and that giving not grudgingly nor of necessity, but
cheerfully, we may be loved of Thee, and be made through Thy merits
partakers of the riches of Thy heavenly treasure. Amen.
Taken from: Manual of Prayers (pg 312)
Compiled by: Third Plenary Council of Baltimore
Imprimatur: James Cardinal Gibbons. Archiep. Baltimore
Published by: John Murphy Company
Copyright: Original 1888
--
Jesse Gomez Jr
In Beautiful Norway
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