Christ be with me
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
Text: Cecil Frances Alexander's verse translation (1889), public domain.
About this prayer
The best-loved part of St Patrick's Breastplate, an Old Irish prayer of protection traditionally credited to Patrick in the fifth century but probably written around the eighth. The English is Cecil Frances Alexander's 1889 verse rendering; our Spanish follows the Irish. It is often prayed on its own, in the morning or before a journey.