DECEMBER 03 SAN FRANCESCO SAVERIO. Today's prayer

O great apostle of the Indies, St. Francis Xavier,

at whose admirable zeal for the health of souls they seemed

narrow the boundaries of the earth: you, who are burning with ardent charity

towards God, you were forced to pray to the Lord to moderate it

ardor, that you owed so many fruits of the apostolate to your total detachment

from every earthly thing, and to the enlightened abandonment of yourself

in the hands of Providence; deh! impetrate to me also those virtues,

who shone so eminent in you, and make me too,

in what way the Lord will, an apostle.

Pater, Ave, Glory