Prayer to Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara,
many people around me lie. Teach me to be like you: to hate lies and betrayal as you did, and to prefer anything to them, even humiliation, even poverty, even social failure.
Saint Barbara, many people around me hate. Teach me, like you, to repay evil with good and to pray for those who hate me, remembering that Christ said:
“If you do not forgive, you will not be forgiven,” and “the measure you give will be the measure you get.”
Saint Barbara, I am filled with pain and my strength is gone. Teach me that suffering offered with love is a gift, and that it can save a soul. Christ gave me this gift on the Cross, and you imitated Him in the torture chamber.
That is how He saved the world, and how you converted your country.
Help me to remember the conditions you lived in: this gives me courage, and I will see that I too can do great things with what I have, and that if I do not like what is happening, I can change it through my hidden deeds, even if I am small, even if I am alone.
