Dear God, I forgive my brother for the evil he caused me and wants to cause me, just as I want you to
forgive me and him to forgive me for the wrongs I may have committed. If you have placed him on my path as a trial, may your will be done. Dear God, keep from me the thought of slandering him and from any malevolent desire against him. Enable me not to feel any joy for the misfortunes that may strike him, or any upset for the benefits that may be granted him so that my soul may not be tainted with thoughts unbefitting a Christian. May your goodness, O Lord, be extended over him, thereby leading him to have better sentiments toward me. Good spirits, inspire me to forget evil and remember the good. May neither the hatred, the rancor, nor the desire to repay evil with evil enter my heart, for hatred and revenge belong only to evil spirits, whether incarnate or discarnate. Instead, may I be ready and willing to extend a helping hand and repay his evil with good and to come to his/her aid if I can. To prove my words sincere, I wish for an opportunity to be useful to him; but most of all, dear God, keep me from doing so out of pride or ostentation, or for oppressing him with humiliating generosity, which would cause me to lose the
benefit of my act; for then I would deserve these words of Christ to be applied to me: You have already received your reward