Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance wherever I go.

Flood my soul with Your Spirit and life.

Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly, that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. 

Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. 

Let them look up, and see no longer me, but only Jesus!

Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.

The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine. 

Let me thus praise You in the way which You love best, by shining on those around me. 

Let me preach without preaching, not by words but by my example, by the catching fore, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.

Amen.

-Inspired by John Henry Cardinal Newman's own prayer, prayed by Mother Teresa daily.