“May the radiance of your charity be a beaming light, and may there never appear amongst you, either in the community, or with outsiders, or in speaking about them, any rivalry, jealousy or that spirit of the world which inclines us to criticize, blame or contradict what others do, thinking that only to be right and good which we do ourselves as the outcome of our initiative.”
– St. Vincent de Paul
– Keep me, Lord, from giving in to motives of competition and too great a desire to get ahead which may cloud my vision and damage the good you wish to accomplish through me.