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EVENING CELEBRATION (cont.)
(standing)
I WANT MASSES...
French Audio - Translation below
1.
My children, yes, I want Masses,
More than Masses at the altar:
I need the perpetual gift
Of souls constantly immolating themselves.
To pray, to suffer, to work for Me,
Is the most beautiful Mass there is.
2.
No one can do a more beautiful work
Than to live crucified.
Saying “yes” to My Holy Will,
Is the true proof of your love.
From there comes the efficacy,
Of all the Masses celebrated.
3.
I said so in My Gospel:
“The last shall be first.”
The more you will be humbled,
Glad to be judged useless,
The dearer you will be to My Heart,
You will taste a profound happiness.
4.
May your souls leave the earth
And rise constantly to God!
From the created, look away,
Of the world, forget the miseries;
For the joy of the Trinity,
From this very moment is destined for you.
5.
O Jesus, You want souls,
Ready to give without counting.
Love knows no bounds,
The cross sustains and sets us on fire.
Help us to imitate You,
So that everywhere You may be loved.
Reading of the Holy Gospel (cont.)
(Saint John 17:1-26)
I - Jesus prays for Himself
Jesus spoke in this way, then raising His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come!…
“Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You, even as You have given Him power over all flesh, that He may give everlasting life to all those You have given Him.
“This is everlasting life, to know You, the only true God, and Him whom You have sent, Jesus Christ.
“I have glorified You on earth; I have finished the work that You have given Me to accomplish.
“And now, O Father, glorify Me in Yourself with the glory that I had in You before the world existed.”
II - Jesus prays for His Disciples
“I have manifested Your Name to the men You have separated from the world and given Me. They were Yours, and You have given them to Me; and they have kept Your word. Now they have learned that whatever You have given Me comes from You. I have told them the words You told Me, and they have received them. They have truly acknowledged that I came forth from You; they have believed that You sent Me.
“For them do I pray! Not for the world do I pray, but for those You have given Me, because they are Yours. For all I have is Yours, and all that is Yours is Mine: I am glorified in them.
“Soon I will have left the world; but they remain in the world, and I am returning to You.
“Holy Father, by Your Name keep those You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are.
“While I was with them, I kept them by Your Name. Those You have given Me I have kept, and not one of them has perished except the son of perdition, in whom Scripture has been fulfilled. But now I am returning to You.
“I speak all these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the fullness of My joy in themselves.
“I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
“I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from evil.
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
“Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.
“Even as You have sent Me into the world, so I also have sent them into the world.
“And for them do I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.”
III - Jesus prays for all the faithful
“Not for these only do I pray, but also for those who, through their word, will believe in Me.
“May they all be one! Even as You, Father, are in Me, as I am in You: may they thus be one in Us, that the world may believe that You have sent Me.
“I have associated them with the glory I received from You, that they may be one, even as We are One.
“I in them and You in Me! May they thus be perfected in unity, that the world may recognize that You have sent Me, and that You have loved them with the same love with which You have loved Me.
“Father, I will that where I am, those You have given Me may be with Me! I will that they behold the glory You have given Me, for You have loved Me before the formation of the world.
“Just Father, the world has not known You! But I have known You, and these have understood that You have sent Me. I have manifested Your Name to them; I will make it further known to them, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and that I also may be in them.”
HOLY HOUR OF REPARATION 23:00
At Paray-le-Monial, the Heart of Jesus asked for the Holy Hour of Reparation to atone for the crimes of sinners and to console Him for the insults He receives in the Sacrament of His Eucharist.
On this Holy Thursday, the day of Love par excellence, let us spend an hour with Jesus…
(Prayers according to the desire of our hearts, contemplation of the great mysteries of Redemption).
