Prayer for an increase in love, adapted from The Imitation of Christ.

O Jesus,

Let me cry out with all the ardor of my soul:  "You, Lord God, are my whole love and all my desire.  You are all mine and I am all Yours."

Let my heart expand in love of You.  Ket me learn to know how sweet it is to serve You, how joyful it is to praise You, and to be dissolved in love of You.

I will sing the canticle of love to You: 

"Love is patient, love is kind.  It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

I will follow You, my Beloved, wherever You go, and may my soul never weary of praising You, rejoicing in Your love.  Let me love You more than myself and myself only for Your sake; let me love all others in You and for You, as Your law of love commands.