🌿 🌿 The Chaplet of the Little Ones of God

A prayer for becoming a child of God through humility, lowliness, and surrender

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🕊️ In the Spirit of St. Joseph of Cupertino

This chaplet is prayed in the spirit of St. Joseph of Cupertino, the humble Franciscan friar whose life was marked by simplicity, obedience, and childlike trust in God. Known for his struggles and supernatural gifts, he reminds us that holiness is not found in strength or intelligence, but in total dependence on the Father.

Prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino

St. Joseph, pray that I may follow you on the path of humility and peace. Amen.

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✨ Introduction

The Chaplet of the Little Ones of God is not a prayer of ascension, but of descent — of becoming small, like Christ, and small, like Mary. It leads the heart toward a joyful poverty of spirit, toward meekness, lowliness, and the radiant humility of Jesus.

It is for those who long to become children of God, as Christ Himself became a child for us.

“Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3)

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📿 How to Pray the Chaplet of the Little Ones

You may use a standard rosary or simply your fingers.

1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross

2. On the Crucifix:

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, be my salvation.

3. On the large beads (Our Father beads):

Jesus, my eternal love, light, life; hope, joy; protection, and peace.

4. On the 10 small beads (Hail Mary beads):

Jesus, let me be meek, humble, lowly, and poor.

5. At the end of each decade (Glory Be bead):

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

6. Final prayer (after the last decade):

[You] must increase; I must decrease.

(John 3:30)

7. Conclude with the Sign of the Cross

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🌟 The Meaning of the Prayers

Prayer 1: “Jesus, my eternal love, light, life, hope, joy, protection and peace.”

This is a prayer of adoration to the God Most High — echoing the praises of St. Francis and rooted in the opening of both John’s Gospel and First John:

“In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)

“God is love… God is light… God is life.” (1 John 4:8, 1:5, 5:11)

We do not ask — we adore. We name Him our everything, because He is.

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Prayer 2: “Jesus, let me be meek, humble, lowly, and poor.”

Each word flows from Scripture and the lives of the saints:

• Meek and humble: Jesus says, “Learn from Me, for I am meek and humble of heart.” (Matthew 11:29)

• Lowly: Mary says, “He has looked with favor on the lowliness of His handmaid.” (Luke 1:48)

• Poor: The saints listen to Jesus, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3)

The phrase “let me be…” echoes the holy surrender of Mary’s fiat: “Let it be done to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38)

In this prayer we move from Jesus’s heart inflamed with infinite love for us, to Mary’s heart full of Christ’s love, to the glorious hearts of the saints, also inflamed with that same love.

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Prayer 3: “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, be my salvation. I am Your helpless child.”

This is a cry of utter dependence, the prayer of the one who no longer relies on strength or self-image but has become a child in the arms of God.

“Unless you become like children…” (Matthew 18:3)

“To all who received Him… He gave power to become children of God.” (John 1:12)

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Prayer 4: “Glory be…”

This prayer of praise concludes each decade, glorifying God as He is — eternal, unchanging, and perfectly holy.

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🕊️ The Last Word

This chaplet is not a call to do more or be more — but to become less.

To shrink in the eyes of the world.

To grow in the trust of a child.

To surrender to the gentle poverty of the Gospel.

Let your final breath in this chaplet be that of St. John the Baptist:

“He must increase; I must decrease.” (John 3:30)

✝️ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.