Prayer of St. John Gabriel Perboyre To Jesus
Saint John Gabriel Perboyre, priest and martyr composed this prayer in the 19th century.
The theme of the prayer is to help transform oneself to be more like Jesus and to banish all that in unlike Jesus from one's heart, soul and memory. This transformational prayer builds towards Saint Paul's statement in Galatians 2:20: "I live - now not I - But Christ lives in me".
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