June 2023

We would like to clear your name when it is used to justify an act of barbarity!

We would like to reiterate that you never legitimised any violence or vengeance, that you revealed a God of Love, unconditional love for everyone. Love taken to that extreme… of letting yourself be eaten! So that, nourished by this love, humanity will gradually assimilate it until the day when it will be transformed from within.

“I will put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the stony heart from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” – a promise made by the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 35:26).

If the Church makes the Eucharist, there are too many empty places in our celebrations! There are those who no longer come to Mass because they don’t understand anything about it. And there are those who choose to attend Masses where they understand neither the language nor the ritual, believing that they are thus preserving transcendence and mystery.
Lord, this mystery is indeed too great, too inexhaustible, it “understands” us, it envelops us too much, even in our bodies, for us to ever give up trying to approach it. May your Holy Spirit revive our theological work, and above all may we know how to renew the liturgical and ecclesial translations that flow from it.

Holy Spirit, you are visitation on our daily soil, germination in depth,

a call to be born, a joy that dances,

a burst of life!

Come, Holy Spirit, visit us!

It is you who weave our silent hours and into the hidden fibres of our beings,

you chisel away at our soil.

You make our fears crack, you break down the dams that hold back the great flood of Life!

Come Holy Spirit, visit us!

Come and intercede with us for those who suffer,

for those who hurt and destroy,

for those whose humanity is in danger.

Come, Holy Spirit, make your Pentecost burst forth in our hearts

and blow a wind of peace over the world!

You who make all things new, come! Visit us!

Up! Up!

Jesus, young dead of spring

in haste, unseen, unbeknownst to us,

before the sun,

You rolled away the stone that imprisoned life

Like a door freed from its hinges, it flutters to the four winds!

And we, astonished with joy

overwhelmed by daring to believe,

the song comes to our lips before the words:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

Praise be to you, Jesus, the First Living!