Prayer to St. John the Apostle to be recited today to ask for a grace

For that angelic purity, which always formed your character, and deserved you the most singular privileges, that is to be the favorite disciple of Jesus Christ, to rest on his breast, to contemplate his glory, to witness closely the wonders more wonderful, and finally to be from the very mouth of the Redeemer declared son and guardian of his divine Mother; obtain, please, O glorious St. John, the grace to always jealously guard the chastity convenient to our state, and to avoid anything that could offend her in the least, to deserve the most distinguished graces, and especially the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is the surest deposit of perseverance in good and eternal bliss.

Glory to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
as it was in the beginning, now and always, forever and ever.

Amen.