God, who raised up St. Edmund
to be father of the poor and
patron of the afflicted children,
please grant that I may learn
from Edmund's example
how to love all God's children,
however poor or afflicted;
that I may become, like him,
eyes for the blind,
feet for the lame,
and a friend to strangers in trouble;
and that by his intercession I may be
protected from all evil and distress.
I ask this in the name of Jesus
Christ, our Lord,

Amen.