Give me, O God, a sense of responsibility. Give me a sense of responsibility to myself, so that I may never waste the gifts which you have given to me; a sense of responsibility to my parents, so that I may do something to try to repay them for all the love and the care they have given to me; a sense of responsibility to my teachers, so that all their patient teaching of me may not go for nothing; a sense of responsibility to my friends, so that I may never disappoint them; a sense of responsibility to those who have gone before me, so that I may never forget what my freedom and liberty cost, and that I may hand on still finer the heritage and the tradition into which I have entered; a sense of responsibility to the world, so that I may put into life more than I take out; a sense of responsibility to You, so that I may always remember that you loved me and gave yourself for me.

Help me remember what I have received, and to use what I have and so to make what I ought to out of this life of mine, which cost so much. This I ask for your love’s sake, Amen.

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