Christ beside me, Christ before me;

Christ beside me, Christ before me;
Christ behind me, Christ within me;
Christ beneath me, Christ above me;
Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me;
Christ in my lying, my sitting, my rising;
Christ in heart of all who know me,
Christ on tongue of all who meet me,
Christ in eye of all who see me,
Christ in ear of all who hear me.
For to the Lord belongs salvation,
And to the Lord belongs salvation
And to Christ belongs Salvation.

May your salvation, Lord, be with us always.

~ This prayer is excerpted from St. Patrick’s Breastplate and included in Esther DeWaal's The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination.