Prayer to Mary for a Good Mind
                      A. Hanrion, S.J.

O Mary, my Mother,
I offer you my soul, my mind, and my heart.
Make of me God's instrument.

Give me a penetrating mind to discover,
firm to judge,
open to understand,
free to serve the truth;

an honest mind in telling what it sees rather than what it wants to see;

a tolerant mind which does not dictate to other people,
but which explain what it sees clearly;

a mind infused by the light and the truth of your Son Jesus,
patient in faith,
while waiting for the vision of eternal life.

Amen.

Translated and adapted from French by Dr. Chau T. Phan, Professor Emeritus, Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from Fernand Lelotte, S.J. Rabboni: Consignes et prières pour mieux servir, 9è édition, 1958 (Paris, Casterman; Bruxelles, Foyer Notre-Dame. Imprimatur, 1955.)