Jesus, I often feel lost in life; it seems that I could be left alone and abandoned. But I trust you and I ask you, send me Archangel Raphael to encourage me to fulfill God's will and to find a dwelling close to your Heart. Free me from every deception, from every illusion! I ask you this through the Immaculate Virgin Mary, may she cover me with her mantle.
(Don Dolindo Ruotolo /1882–1970/,
a prayer he wrote for his niece, uncertain about both employment and a calling to marriage;
January 18, 1961)
