Upon meditating on Jesus’s last prayer, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit”. (Luke; 23, 46), Charles de Foucauld writes: “It is the last prayer of our Master and our beloved… May it be our prayer, and may it be not only our final prayer, but the prayer of our whole life”:
Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures – I wish no more than this, Ô Lord.
Into your hands I commend my soul: I offer it to you with all the love of my heart, for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself, to surrender myself into your hands without reserve, and with boundless confidence, for you are my Father. Amen.
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