A Prayer of Surrender

Into Your Hands

Charles de Foucauld · 1858–1916

Charles de Foucauld lived hidden in the Sahara, surrendering everything to God. His Prayer of Abandonment — drawn from a meditation on Jesus' last words — is a slow letting-go, prayed line by line.

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St Charles de Foucauld — the Prayer of Abandonment, drawn from his 1896 meditation on Luke 23:46.