Three Gifts Of God

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is sound your whole body will be full of light. Matthew 6: 22

Since boyhood Columba had devoted himself to training in the Christian life, and to the study of wisdom; with God’s help, he had kept his body chaste and his mind pure and shown himself, though placed on earth, fit for the life of heaven… He was brilliant in intellect and great in counsel. He spent thirty four years as an island soldier, and could not let even an hour pass without giving himself to praying or reading or writing or some other task. Fasts and vigils he performed day and night with tireless labour and no rest. At the same time he was loving to all people, and his face showed a holy gladness because his heart was full of the joy of the Holy Spirit.
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Purity, wisdom and prophecy,
These are the gifts I would ask of Thee,
O High King of Heaven, grant them to me.
The lamp of the body is purity,
And those that have it their God shall see,
For the pure in heart know how to love,
And I have longed my love to prove.
This is the gift I would ask of Thee,
O Lord of my manhood, bestow it on me,
Your wisdom I pray for, a light for the mind,
And those that seek it shall surely find
The way in which to serve and lead;
My people are lost and a shepherd need.
The gift of the soul is prophecy;
Enlarge my vision that I may see
The past and the present and future as one
That here on this earth Thy will be done.
Purity, wisdom and prophecy,
These are the gifts I would ask of Thee;
O High King of Heaven, grant them to me
Columba’s Prayer from the play with music Columba