Teach us good Lord to serve you as you deserve. To give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds to toil and to seek for no reward save that of know that we do your will.   Inspire us, we pray,  by the examples of those who have gone before us to do all such good works as you have prepared for us.  And at the end of this Prison Week  help us to remember, each of us in our own way,  the last words of your servant William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army 
“While women weep as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to prison in and out in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; where there is a drunkard left ; while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, where there remains one dark soul without the light of God  - I’ll fight. I’ll fight to the very end. God help me.
Amen.
A prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi:
O Divine Master, grant that we may not so much seek  to be consoled as to console,
Not so much to be understood as to understand,
Not so much to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. 
Ghanian Lorry Driver’s Prayer: 432.
