INTRODUCTION

We have grown up in a custom that revere so deeply the cross. By this, He saved us We consecrate to you ourselves in thanks giving to your infinite mercy, for giving us
and offers us the promise of resurrection. Christ is the sign that God loved us so pardon and another opportunity to love you with our pure heart.
much and that He brings us forgiveness and life and love. It is to Jesus on the cross
that we look up for strength to bear the crosses that come to us in the difficulties of Our dear Saviour, we place ourselves in your most loving heart one again. Offer
life. We also look up to him for joy and happiness on our pilgrim way and for them with you to God, our Father and beg Him for your sake and for love of you,
unending life beyond death. With Jesus we now celebrate the memory of his sacrifice graciously to accept and grant all our supplications. We ask all this through your
on the cross and of his resurrection. most mighty name. Amen.
We pray for our sisters in the ________________________________________
-PSALMS AND CANTICLE-
INVOCATION
Hymn: Bless the Lord, My Soul
Hymn:
Holy Spirit of God, pour upon us your life giving presence. Make us open to your
OPENING PRAYER
inspiration and be able to respond wholeheartedly and willingly to the challenges of
O Sacrament Most Holy…
the gospel. Make us your instruments in bringing into flesh the Word that leads to
everlasting life. Amen
Lord Jesus Christ, who for the love you bear us, full of compassion and of love,
awaiting, calling and welcoming all of us. You are truly present in the Sacrament of
READING of the Gospel
the Altar. We adore you from the depths of our nothingness and we honor you for all
the graces you have given us in each and every way, in each and every day.
REFLECTION
“God has loved the world so much, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
You, O Lord, are the most holy. Your name is sweet and powerful. Accept our
believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life”
humble adoration, our praise. May it please you and with this we become as you
want us to be…
God loves us with a preferential love, a tangible love, a love which speaks… Could
the Father come directly to us? Yes, but is the love of a Father, who gives his only
Hymn: Praise to the Lord -
Son, not greater? Every mother, if she is able to choose, prefers to die herself rather
than see her son die. God has loved us so much, to the point of seeing his Son die!
Christ, our God, we love you with our whole heart. We grieve for having offended
Indeed, “God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through
your infinite goodness. Now, miserable and unworthy though we are, we ask your
him the world would be saved”. A God capable of a perfect judgment sends the Son
pardon, your forgiveness for the many times that we have caused you pain through
not to judge but to be a place of salvation. Truly, it is necessary to set at zero every
our sins.
thought and to place oneself before such a great love. Only the One who loves can
“judge” that is “save”. He knows the fragility of the human heart and knows that his
Penitential Act
image, which has been darkened, has the possibility to return to be clear, it is not
We do not let life grow in us when we mar it by sin and indifference. We ask the
necessary to make it anew. The logics of life does not know death: God who is life
Lord of life to forgive us. (PAUSE)
cannot destroy what he himself has wanted to create, that, in some way, would be to
destroy himself.
Lord Jesus, our resurrection and life, forgive us our hesitant and weak faith and our
timid and wavering hope. Lord, have mercy.
Faith is the discerning element in every existence. Not to believe in the name of the
Only Begotten Son is already a condemnation, because he who does not accept love
Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, forgive us that your life in us
excludes himself from love. And the judgment is this: though the light has come into
has grown so little since we were baptized: Christ, have mercy.
the world, people have preferred darkness to the light because their deeds were evil.
The only judgment by which humanity is invested, is the call to live in the light. The
Lord Jesus, our food of life, forgive us that we have not let the Eucharist raise us up
light of existence has only one source: God. He who withdraws from the light, dies.
from the grave of sin: Lord, have mercy.
Let us look deeply in our way of loving. Does our love leads others towards the light
Have mercy on us, Lord, and forgive us all our sins. Make us live your life to the full
who is Christ? Or it is towards our self who hungers for love?
that it may blossom into eternal life. Amen.
Silence…Meditation…Reflection

Magnificat

Intercessions

Prayer for the Year of Missio Ad Gentes

Divine Praises

Final Hymn: Tell the World of His Love