Allow me, O God, to borrow St. Paul’s beautiful prayer for the Ephesians and make it my prayer to you this Thursday: “As I kneel before you loving Father in heaven, grant me the riches of your glory to be strengthened in my inner self with your Holy Spirit so that through faith rooted and grounded in love in you, Jesus Christ may dwell in my heart always. Grant me the strength to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love that surpasses human knowledge to be filled with all your fullness, O God. For it is only in Jesus Christ, through Him and with Him that I can accomplish far more than all I ask or imagine.” (Eph.3:14-21)
Indeed, “the earth is full of your goodness, O God,” but we miserably fail to discover and keep these because we always run away and hide from you in our sinfulness and selfishness.
Let us become one with your Son Jesus Christ in “setting the earth on fire by being one with Him in His baptism” (Lk.12:49,50) with our commitment to love and serve you, O God, by putting into practice your words and precepts, to make this world a better place to live in peace and harmony. Let us commit ourselves to Jesus Christ so we can build more bridges that unite us as brothers and sisters. Let us commit ourselves to Christ so we can build better and lovelier buildings of dwelling and work where we gather as one family in you, our Father.
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