Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and whilst nursing them minister unto you.

Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the exacting,the irritable, the unreasonable, may I still recognise you and say: Jesus my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

Lord give me this seeing faith, that my work will never be monotonous. I will ever find new joy in humoring the fancies,and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers.

O Beloved Sick, how doubly dear you are to me when you personify Christ. And what a privilege is mine To be allowed to tend you.

Sweetest Lord,make me appreciative of the high dignity of my vocation., and its mmany responsibilities.

Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. And O God while you are my patient,also deign to be a patient Jesus, bearing with my faults, looking only at my intention which is to serve you, in the person of each of your sick.

Lord, increase my faith, bless my efforts and my work, now and forever more. Amen