Mealtime – an encounter with the Holy Trinity
Jesus, rest your gaze upon me, prepare my soul to receive the kiss of your union, cleanse me. May we live this prayer together, united in every way, in body, in soul, in love and in free will. May this encounter between love created and Love uncreated be a source of Life for all. In this way, hidden in your Love, all the created dissolves in the ardent fire of Love uncreated. Amen. FIAT.
“Anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” (Mark 10:15)
Passage from “The 24 Hours of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ” by Luisa Piccarreta – Fourth Hour: The Eucharistic Supper
My sweet Love, always insatiable in your love, I (Luisa) see that as You finish the legal supper together with your dear disciples, You stand up, and united with them, You raise the hymn of thanksgiving to the Father for having given you food, wanting to repair for all the lack of thanksgiving of creatures, and for all the means He gives us for the preservation of corporal life. This is why, O Jesus, in anything You do, touch or see, You always have on your lips the words, “Thanks be to You, O Father”.
I too, Jesus, united with You, take the words from your very lips, and I will say, always and in everything: “Thank You for myself and for all”.
Let us pray
Jesus, through your actions, you show me a new way of living my daily life… You show me that every meal can be a special time of Loving union with the Holy Trinity. Jesus, I am poor and forgetful, so tell my Guardian Angel to remind me of this: that at the start of each meal I invite your Will to dwell within me as I eat, and that at the end of each meal I thank Abba for the food. May this be done for me and for all your creatures. Let us entrust our mealtime to your Will. And to tell you how much I want to live in this way, with my sisters and brothers, we say: (the community prayer, by clicking “Pray”)
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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6