.My eager expectation and hope is that I shall not be put to shame in any way, but that with all boldness, now as always, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain…[ Phil. 1:20 ]
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.
Sometimes Jesus I flee fidelity to the Divine Office, Holy Hour, Adoration, contemplative reading of Sacred Scripture, silence and solitude because I fear the weight of the Cross, that mystery of pain which is in reality Your Kiss – grant Jesus I find the beauty and holiness of being crushed to the ground beside You – through the merits of Your Holy Passion in this Third Fall grant to me and my brother priests fidelity in prayer, adoration and humble loving service of all, especially the poor and broken-hearted.
O Jesus my Lord and my God – grant me to enter into Your pain and trustful surrender to the Holy Will of our Father.
We have from the beginning sinned against God our Father. We have from the beginning sinned against God the Son. We have from the beginning sinned against God the Holy Spirit. Jesus in the redemptive mystery of Your falling three times grant I offer each to the Holy Trinity in repentance and atonement for my sins – I am the sinner – and those of my brother priests and of the whole 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.
Since the Upper Room priests have sinned, abandoned their vocations, betrayed their vows – the enemies of the priesthood seize upon such in order to dishearten Your little ones and sow fear and discouragement in the hearts of all priests – face to the ground with You Jesus in the full generous humility You reveal in this station grant I pour myself out in union with You in intercession and atonement for all my brother priests and Lord Jesus have mercy on me the sinner.
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 be filled with a spirit of contrition, repentance, atonement and unceasing intercessory prayer.
.We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father, knowing, brothers loved by God, how you were chosen..[ 1 Thess. 1:2/4 ]