Morning Prayer by Thomas Aquinas:
Oversee, O my God, my life,
that I might do what you ask of me;
allow me to see and permit me to do
whatever is fitting and profitable to my soul.
Lead me not, O Lord my God,
into excessive wealth or want,
lest I put my trust in riches, or despair in misery.
Let me take no joy or sorrow,
in what would lead me to you or from you.
Let me delight only in pleasing you
and fear only displeasing you.
O Lord, let all passing things seem worthless to me
and let everything eternal become my treasure.
May I despise any joy apart from you
and seek nothing that is without you.
Make carrying burdens for you my relaxation, O Lord,
and rest without you itself a burden.
Cross, my certain salvation, Cross, whom I ever adore,
Cross of the Lord be with me, Cross, my refuse, forevermore. Amen.
