..It is good to hope in silence for the saving help of the Lord.[ Lam. 3:26 ]
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 own pain – and Your own trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.
Ours is the millennium of terror, a world which slaughters the unborn and urges death upon the elderly and the infirm, makes countless sacrilegious Holy Communions, is disconnected from the Holy Gospel proclaimed on Sunday and daily life. We have abandoned our faith, lost our way.
The weight of all this crushes You once again to the ground – let me as Your priest be crushed along with You that the Father’s mercy will prevail – that time be given to me and all my brother priests so we, and the whole world, be converted anew each day.
O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.
Abraham stood before the Father and pleaded for the people of the cities; Moses stood upon the mountain in prayer that the enemies of Your people be vanquished – now You our High Priest are prostrate beneath the heavy wooden stole pleading to the Father with every breath and drop of Your Most Precious Blood – grant I remain on the ground beside You concelebrating with You the eternal prayer of intercession and atonement.
O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.
As the waters of Baptism are poured over us You pour Yourself over all of creation – open wide my being O Jesus that I might be the ground upon which You fall that some of Your loneliness might be assuaged.
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 might comfort the Lonely Heart of Jesus through absolute fidelity to our sacramental vocation.
..live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of
peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all…[ Ep. 4:1/6 ]