This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick who was about a lot more than four leafed clovers and green beer! It is often called “St. Patrick’s Breastplate” because of it’s cry for God’s protection.
This day we call to us: God’s strength to direct us, God’s power to sustain us.
God’s wisdom to guide us, God’s vision to light us, God’s ear to our hearing, God’s word to our speaking, God’s hand to uphold us, God’s pathway before us, God’s shield to protect us, God’s legions to save us: from snares of the demons, from evil enticements, from failings of nature, from one man or many that seek to destroy us, anear or afar.
Be Christ this day our strong protector. . . Christ beside us, Christ before us; Christ behind us, Christ within us; Christ beneath us, Christ above us; Christ to right of us, Christ to left of us; Christ in our lying, our sitting, our rising; Christ in heart of all who know us, Christ on tongue of all who meet us, Christ in eye of all who see us, Christ in ear of all who hear us.
For my shield this day we call: a mighty power: the Holy Trinity! Affirming threeness, confessing oneness in the making of all – through love.
Based on version from: ChurchNext, by Eddie Gibbs, p. 139
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