Closing Prayer
My Jesus, I have traveled Your Way
of the cross.
It seems so real and I feel so ashamed. I complain of my
sufferings and find obedience to the Father's Will difficult. My
Mind
bogged down by the poverty, sickness, starvation, greed and
hatred
in the world.
There are many innocent people who suffer so unjustly. There are
those born with physical and mental defects. Do we understand
that
Your continue to carry Your cross in the minds and bodies of each
human being?
Help me to see the Father's Will in every incident of my daily
life. This is what You did - you saw the Father's Will in Your
persecutors,
Your enemies and your pain.
You saw a beauty in the Cross and embraced it as a desired
treasure.
My worldly mind is dulled by injustice and suffering and I
lose sight of the glory that is to come. Help me to trust the
Father
and to realize that there is something great behind the most
insignificant
suffering. There is Someone lifting my cross to fit my shoulders
- there
is Divine Wisdom in all the petty annoyances that irk my soul
every day.
Teach me the lessons contained in my Cross,
the wisdom of its necessity, the beauty of its variety and the
fortitude that accompanies even the smallest cross.
Mary, My Mother, obtain for me the grace to be Jesus
to my neighbor and to see my neighbor
in Jesus.
Amen.
Taken from the book Living
Way Of The Cross by Mother Angelica
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