Cardinal Newman's prayer for light during a time of spiritual darkness
Recommended by Christopher Howse in the Daily Telegraph (12 August 2010)
Prayer for the Light of Truth
O my God, I confess that You can
enlighten my darkness. I confess that You
alone can. I wish my darkness to be
enlightened. I do not know whether You
will: but that You can and that I wish, are
sufficient reasons for me to ask, what You
at least have not forbidden my asking. I
hereby promise that by Your grace which I
am asking, I will embrace whatever I at
length feel certain is the truth, if ever I
come to be certain. And by Your grace I
will guard against all self-deceit which
may lead me to take what nature would
have, rather than what reason approves.
Cardinal John Henry Newman
