For Students

HEAR us, O never-failing Light, Fount of all Truth, Source of all Wisdom, as we pray for those who are called to the tasks of learning, to the discipline of the intellect. Inspire all students with the desire for reality in thought, that they may know Thee, the ultimate Truth, the Infinite Mind, whose thoughts they can but think again. Cast out all intellectual vanity and vain-glory. Forbid that they should ever pretend to a knowledge they do not possess. Make them to be faithful in all their work, loyal to their teachers, earnestly desirous of the best gifts, yet ever rejoicing in another's success. Fill them with great hopes for the future, with pure and unselfish ambitions, that in due time they may give of what they have received and impart some good to those who are ignorant and out of the way. Spirit of all counsel and knowledge! Guide the feet of Thy servants into the paths of eternal life. May their souls be lamps of Thine, burning and shining with the truth, dimmed by no evil passion, darkened by no deadly sin. May it be theirs to have the secret of Christ, which is the secret of blessedness, without which all other learning is but dust and ashes. We ask this for his sake. Amen.