
So
always confident
and knowing that
(when) we are home
in the body,
we are away from the Lord…
– For we walk with faith
not with sight. –
… (in fact) we are confident
and we would
rather be absent from the body
and
at home with the Lord.
Therefore we make it our aim,
either at home or absent
to be pleasing to him.
For all of us it will be necessary
to appear
before the judgement seat of Christ
so that each person might receive
according to what they have done
in the body
(either good or evil.)
Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
St Ignatius