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For purity. | |
Many are the temptations against which I try to fight, and were it not for the help which Thou art ever ready to give unto me, I should fail and they would overcome me. But I need Thee more than ever in my struggles against the evil passions and desires which sometimes come to me. It is not through ignorance that I sin, but through weakness and through the deliberate suppression of the voice of conscience. I cast Thee from me and forget Thy presence within me. | |
O my Father, when I am with my companions, and above all when I am alone, help me to keep my mind pure and clean. Give me the strength of will to banish thoughts and desires which I know to be wrong, so that I sin not in mind nor in deed. | |
May the remembrance of my beloved ones help to restrain me; for how can I bear to face those whom I love, if I have been disloyal and false to them? It is so easy to blind myself to my sin. With shame and horror may I realise whither my weakness will lead me. O help me to rise above my sinful self, and so to discipline and rule myself that without fear I may meet my temptations. Thou art with me, and with Thy help all things are possible. | |
Only in Purity and Uprightness can I bear witness unto Thee, my Master in whose service I strive to live. Amen. |
Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayer “For Purity” was first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, page 96.
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