Foucauld Prayer Project

Father Lennie Tighe posted this: 

Can you write a prayer to St Charles de Foucauld??

Wil you write that prayer for us??

A new project and I need your help.

Perhaps you have never written a prayer. All our lives we read the many prayers that people have written in the past. Some we can recite from memory, some from early childhood.

St Bernard, the great saint known for his writings on Our Lady, wrote the Memorare.

All our great Catholic prayers were written by someone, somewhere, for some reason.

St Charles de Foucauld wrote many prayers, to Our Lady and a multitude of his saintly community. Of course the "Prayer of Abandonment"

Now the challenge. I am asking you to write a prayer, your own prayer directly from your heart and life to Charles de Foucauld. From your heart. Nothing poetic, if you chose, not a literary gem..It can be as long or as short as your heart speaks.,

You create, you write your own personal prayer to St Charles, Brother Charles for most of us.

Your prayer can be for any reason, maybe a petition, maybe for health, maybe for cancer,

What could he be patron saint of in your life? Where would that prayer come from? And of course, praying for those we love, searching for God as he did? Those away from Church and the Sacraments?

Already you are thinking of something coming up from your spiritual heart, what you would say and ask, or thank.

Now all prayer is directed to God, Our Father, through the eternal unending prayer of Jesus, now as the contemplative of His Fathers face, but by means of the love and the fire of the Holy Spirit..But we do ask our family in the very concrete communion of the saints, for the help, the healing, the hearing, and their personal intercession, of however that works.

So now you have the invitation, There is no right way and no wrong way to do this, only YOUR way.

Can you please send them back to me?

I will compile them. Into something, not sure what that would look like.

It would be a sharing of our own open hearts, to read and share the faith of others in the life, holiness and friendship we have with our crazy friend, Charles Eugene de Foucauld, Charles of Jesus.

I will gather them into something to share with you. If you could send them before September 30.

Finally, Can I ask you to share this email with others, others you think might enjoy the invitation to create and share their prayer with us. Please use this email address: [stchdefoucauld@gmail.com](mailto:stchdefoucauld@gmail.com)

Are you in, with me on this??

St. Charles de Foucauld, you who lived and died in a violent world, I ask you to consider the violent state of my country, the United States of America. You who grew to abhor violence and knew that is not what Jesus taught. I beg for your intercession. Please continue my praying. Help my country to reflect Jesus. May God bless America. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

The Link between God and Me

 St. Charles de Foucauld wrote a prayer that more or less says he's such a sinner, he can't see how he will ever get to heaven.  Near the end of the prayer, he sees the heart of Jesus beating his name.  It's Jesus love that will draw us to Him and heaven.  

                                                Act of Confidence in the Sacred Heart of Jesus

As bad as I am, as great a sinner as I may be, I must hope that I'll go heaven, You forbid me to despair.

You forbid me to ever be discouraged, in front of my misery--You won't let me tell myself; "I can't go any farther--the road to Heaven is too steep--I'm going to give up and slide back down to the bottom."  Faced with my continually renewed faults, for which I ask Your pardon each day, and which I repeatedly fall into, You forbid me to tell myself: "I can never correct myself--holiness is not for me.  What have I in common with Heaven?  I am not worthy to enter there."  In light of the infinite graces You've heaped upon me, and the unworthiness of my present life, You for bid me to say to myself, "I have abused so many graces--I should be a saint and I am a sinner; I can't correct myself; it's too difficult; after all that God has done for me, I'm full of vices and pride; there is nothing good in me; I'll never go to Heaven."  You  tell me to hope in spite of everything.  I must believe that I will have enough grace to be converted and one day be with You in glory.  What is there in common between the perfection of Heaven and my miserable self? 
    This is Your Heart, Lord Jesus--Your Heart is the link between these two things which are so unlike one another.