Become Like a Child

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O Divine Infant Jesus, I come to you as a little child, with all my needs and all my trust. You who made yourself small for love of us, look kindly on me in my smallness. Fill me with confidence in your power and tenderness in your care. I believe that you can help me, and I believe that you will. Divine Infant Jesus, I place all my hope in you. Amen.

Let us pause in silence, and bring to mind the intention you are praying for.

In the app, your own saved intention rests here during the silence. The narration stays the same for everyone.

and said, Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

The devotion to the Infant Jesus begins by making us small. God came to us as a child, and he asks us to come to him as one: without pretense, without self-sufficiency, without the grown-up habit of trusting only ourselves. To become like a child is not to be childish, but to be utterly dependent on a Father who can be trusted completely.

Divine Infant Jesus, you came among us as a little one to teach me to be little before you. Strip away my pride and my self-reliance, and give me the simple, open heart of a child. Let me stop trying to manage everything on my own and learn instead to depend on you. I come to you as your child. Amen.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

O Jesus, who said, Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you, I knock, I seek, and I ask that my prayer be granted. O Jesus, who said, Whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you, I humbly lay my need before your Father in your holy name. O Jesus, who said, Heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away, I trust that my prayer is heard. Divine Infant Jesus, I place all my hope in you. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.