Forgive me, Master, for my anger, for my bad thoughts, for my rebelliousness, for all my impurity. Allow me to forgive, help me to forgive, Lord. Help me not to become angry anymore. Forgive me, Lord, for being unable to forgive, for still feeling anger toward what I cannot understand in the behavior of others.
I cannot even explain my own behavior, nor can I explain my own will, nor can I explain the ups and downs of my life. Why demand to understand that for which there is no explanation?
I truly need You. When I do not think of You, I think of things that do not serve me.
I need You, Lord, at all times, because only in the reflection of Your love can I remember what is truly important, eternal, and true.
Lord, keep us steadfast on the path of good. Keep us aligned with Your will. Even when we remain stubborn, do not allow our stubborn actions to bear fruit, but correct us before the great harvest, so that we may amend our choices in time.
Always be with us.
Sanctify us. Remove from us all evil, all inconsistency, all the thoughts we nurture that cause us harm, all the behaviors we nurture that cause us harm, all the pain we insist on feeling again and again.
Set us free, through the truth, from every attachment to suffering.
Transform our thoughts into good thoughts, Jesus! Transform our behaviors into good behaviors, Jesus! Transform us from the inside out, so that all impurity may be washed away by the pure flame of the fire of the Holy Spirit and never return.
Lord, Purify My Heart Lord, purify my heart, heal my wounds, make the love that fills our hearts with hope, peace, and joy overflow within me.
Mold me into a devoted and faithful servant, pure of heart and filled with great love for his Master. Make me dependent on Your constant presence. Work Your graces within me, so that I may become an instrument of Your word.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, grant us grace. Fill our hearts with the breath of Your life, give us the fruit of peace and courage to nourish our spirits with strength to work for Your Name.
Lord, calm my heart, let Your peace enter within me, renew me, heal me, transform me.
Lord, cleanse my heart, ease the burden of the weight I am feeling. I do not know where it comes from, whether it is physiological, emotional, or spiritual, but I feel the weight in my chest.
I pray today that one day I may pray every day, that one day I may stop postponing and make a definitive change. Prayer should be practiced every day; it is so important and transformative, but why do we not do it?
I do not have an answer to that question.
I sought answers, I sought the truth, because that was what I needed; it was the only thing that made sense, the only thing that had purpose. After discovering everything I wanted to know, I can no longer merely seek knowledge; I need to seek the Lord in my heart.
Because nothing else has value except the value I find when I feel what God feels for us. Nothing makes sense, nothing has purpose without God, but in the presence of God, everything makes sense, everything has purpose. And only the love of God is capable of opening our eyes to see this truth.
That is why I can no longer live life as I did before. I need God in order to live. I need God to fill me with life. Without God, I do not live. There is nothing more important than God. Neither money, nor influence, nor marriage: nothing can replace what only God is capable of accomplishing within us.
Before God, all these illusions of the world are nothing to our soul. Nothing. They add nothing to our soul.
The value of these things only adds something when God moves through them and, through them, makes His presence known. Money adds nothing to our soul except when, through money, God moves through an act of love and charity: a donation. The love of God is shown through money. But as an end in itself, it is nothing.
Marriage, the union of two souls, only adds something when God moves through the couple and we recognize acts of unconditional love, in the image and likeness of God. There is no value in the world except the value we can draw from something through God.
To realize this is to understand that everything we value, in truth, we do not value in itself; rather, we value God through it. We do not value money, but we value the love of God, which allows us to ease our parents’ hearts of worry and fear.
All value is in God. Because of this, Christ told us: “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Let us seek more and more to have God within us, because of everything in the world, there is value only when God uses it as a tool. Be a tool of God, and you will have God within you.
Grant me the grace, O Lord, of Your presence.
In Your bosom, O Father, is where I find comfort for my soul. Your presence is like a restorative embrace, where everything becomes light, my spirit fills with life, and my heart finally rests. You alone are capable of creating this feeling.
There are no distractions, no desires, no pleasures whatsoever that are capable of filling, in my heart, what I feel when You touch mine. There is no happy time far from You.
It is time for me to surrender truly and completely. I can no longer be stubborn and live only on crumbs of Your presence. I need the Lord every day, every moment. My heart can no longer bear the emptiness of being far from You.
Why, Lord, do we seek You only when we can no longer endure the pain we are carrying? Why do we not live constantly in search of Your presence in our hearts? Why do we remain stubborn, even knowing how important You are to us?
I can no longer ignore it. I can no longer live for this world. I need to live for You. I need to leave behind every illusion of happiness that exists apart from You, because there is none. I need to make the definitive, permanent, unwavering decision to surrender my life to You. I need to stop delaying this commitment. I need to stop postponing this life for myself.
Allow me to see what I do not see. Increase my lucidity, increase my clarity. Allow me to think clearly and see things as they are. Remove me from illusion, remove me from the whirlpools that drain my lucidity, my understanding of reality.
Place reminders in my mind so that I may always remain awake in the now and in the present. Remind me of what is truly important for my soul. And make me feel, within my heart, the need to continue with Your mission of drawing ever closer to You.
For You are the Supreme King of the Universe, the Queen of Hearts, the most beautiful and pure, the most sublime and ineffable; and Your grace is infinite toward us, and Your mercy forever ours.
Immaculate, there is none more beautiful, none more virtuous than You. Holy is Your name, now and forever.
Everything works together for good, because we are made of God. No matter what happens, how it happens, or how long it takes: everything returns to God. There is no way for us to remain separated from God. There is only the illusion of temporary separation. Our free will allows us to choose anything, even that which is most cruel, but we are not capable of enduring only evil, for our spirit is nourished only by love.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. There is nothing that fills our heart, that nourishes our soul, like Christ. Divine love is what gives us energy to live. Far from God, we live in apathy and depression, without meaning, without strength, without expression.
If we want to have a soul full of life, full of purpose, strength, energy, and courage, we need to nourish ourselves daily with the love of God. Every day, we eat the bread that nourishes our body, but man shall not live by bread alone, but also by the bread of the spirit. Our soul needs nourishment, not only our body.
The nourishment of the soul is God; it is the unconditional and infinite love that God has for us. But we are only able to feel and receive all this love when we direct our attention toward God, when we enter into communion with God. We need to remain in the presence of God, in body, mind, soul, and spirit.
We do not wait for our body to waste away before nourishing ourselves with the food that sustains our body. Why, then, would we wait for our heart to grow dark, our will to disappear, and our pain to increase before seeking God?
Jesus wants us to have life in abundance, full of energy and in the grace of God. God must be a priority, a daily pursuit, a constant necessity, just as bathing, brushing our teeth, eating, and sleeping are. In truth, it is an even greater necessity, because in God is the life that will give you strength to do all these things and more.
God is the bread of life. God is the nourishment that fills us with the strength of life.
