'Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty' — the final offering of self at the close of the Spiritual Exercises.
Suscipe, Domine, universam meam libertatem. Accipe memoriam, intellectum, atque voluntatem omnem. Quidquid habeo vel possideo, mihi largitus es; id tibi totum restituo, ac tuae prorsus voluntati trado gubernandum. Amorem tui solum cum gratia tua mihi dones, et dives sum satis, nec aliud quidquam ultra posco.
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours; do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.
Daily by Jesuits and Ignatian-trained retreatants; at the close of the Spiritual Exercises.
The Suscipe ('Take and receive') appears in the 'Contemplation to Attain Love' at the conclusion of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. After thirty days of prayer the exercitant offers this prayer to God as the seal of the retreat: every faculty, memory, understanding, and will, given back to the Creator.
Generations of Jesuits and lay Ignatian retreatants have made the Suscipe their daily prayer, often praying it line by line throughout the day. It is one of the most concentrated expressions of Christian self-abandonment in the Western tradition.
