Prayer to Jesus for help in the trials of life

Sweetest and most loving Lord,

you know my weakness

and the misery that afflicts me;

you know how great the evil and pain in which I lie

and how frequently I am oppressed, tried,

upset and full of anguish.

I come to you to be helped, consoled and relieved.

I speak to the one who knows everything

and knows all my thoughts;

to the one who alone can fully comfort me

and rescue.

You know well what I need above all

and how poor and suffering I am.

Here I stand before you poor and naked,

asking for grace and begging for mercy.

Refresh my hunger;

warm my coldness with the fire of your love;

illuminate my blindness with the light of your presence;

turns into an occasion for patience

everything that weighs on me and hinders me;

lift my heart up to you

and don't let me succumb

under the weight of evidence.

Be only my sweet attraction

and all my strength,

because you are only my food and drink,

my love and my joy,

my sweetness and my highest good.

Amen.