..My portion is the Lord, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him.. [ Lam. 3:24 ]
We adore You O Christ and we praise You – because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.

O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.

My fears have coated Your Holy Face with dust, my mortal sins have lacerated Your Holy Face each time You fall, my venial sins are as grit within those wounds upon Your Holy Face, my fears splatter as angry spittle upon Your Holy Face – O Jesus I offer You my heart as Veronica’s veil.

O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.

Often I hesitate to proclaim and live the Gospel without compromise because I fear loss of face – You surrender even the beauty of Your countenance for the redemption of souls – grant O Jesus I cling to no earthly beauty or reputation but that as the Baptist prayed I may decrease all the more that You might increase in the souls of all.

O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.

Through the laying on of hands, by the active power of the Holy Spirit, I and my brother priests have been configured in persona Christi – grant we spread devotion to Your Holy Face and contemplating Your Holy Face go every more openly and deeply into the sacred mystery of priesthood.

O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.

O Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of priests – pray for me and my brother priests that we become childlike, pure of heart and willingly accept rejection.

..since we have such hope, we act very boldly…[ 2 Cor. 3:12 ]