passie 6

[7-8pm]

My sweet Good, while I remain close to You, I see... 

that the food You are taking together with your dear disciples...

is nothing but a lamb.

This is a figurative lamb. 

Just as this lamb has no vital humor left by force of fire... 

so You, mystical Lamb, having to consume Yourself completely for creatures by force of love... 

will keep not even a drop of blood for Yourself... 

but will pour it all out, for love of us.

O Jesus, there is nothing You do... 

which does not portray vividly your most sorrowful passion... 

which You keep always present in your mind, in your heart - in everything. 

And this teaches me, that if I too had the thought of your passion before my mind and in my heart, You would never deny me the food of your love. How much I thank You! O my Jesus, not one act escapes You, which does not keep me present, and which does not intend to do me a special good. 

So I pray You that your passion be always in my mind, in my heart, in my gazes, in my steps and in my pains, so that wherever I turn, inside and outside of myself, I may always find You present in me. And You, give me the grace never to forget what You have borne and suffered for me. 

May this be the magnet which, drawing my whole being into You... 

will never again allow me to go far away from You. 

[Passie, 19-20u]