It's a lovely prayer. I worry that our dear not-Catholic brothers and sisters may be, well, caught up short by our florid and expansive language.
It is so interesting, the lovely humility of the "Lord, we just want to ..." prayer and the extravagance of so many Catholic prayers.
And, I am the one who delights in the simple prayers at the end of Mass. As in: Lord, May this service bring us closer to you. Amen. Boom. Period.
But this:
l'adorabile fisionomia del Divin Volto, irradiando la luce della verità e dell'amoreis simply lovely.
The beautiful features of the face of Jesus, all shining with the light of truth and love! Ah!
Day 21!
Three weeks!
Tomorrow is St Mary Magdalene’s day, as most Catholics reckon such things. Dominicans call her “the apostle to the apostles,” because she brought tidings of the Lord’s empty tomb to the Eleven.
She had been a demoniac and what an archaic friend of mine quaintly calls “a fallen woman.”
It is probably of her that our Lord said “... for she loved much,” since she showed the fruits of forgiveness in washing His sacred feet with her tears and drying them with her hair.
Forgiven, she loved much and brought to the Apostles the greatest news ever proclaimed.
Let us, therefore, pray for grace to remember always our undeserved forgiveness, to love much, to carry the Good News to a sorry world longing for it.