A Prayer to My Fortress

Wonderful Counsellor open my confining mind,

Show me the righteous path to seek and find.

Mighty God give me the strength to do your will,

I beseech that you grant my supplicating spirit fill.

Eternal Father absent not your presence from me,

I bow with love and adoration on bended knee.

Prince of Peace instill within me a clean heart,

So that my joy in your Kingdom I may impart.

May the joy of the Resurrection flood my soul,

Until the end time my soul becomes whole.

By Charles Wentworth

(Dave Charlesworth is a member of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg.) †

The Criterion