PRAYER FOR MONDAY OF THE ANGEL (EASTER)

I want to repeat you today, my Lord, the same words that others have already said to you. The words of Mary of Magdala, the woman thirsting for love, not resigned to death. And he asked you, while he could not see you, because the eyes cannot see what the heart truly loves, where you were. God can be loved, cannot be seen. And he asked you, believing you were the gardener, where you had been placed.

To all the gardeners of life, which is always the garden of God, I too would like to ask where they put the Beloved God, crucified for love.

I would also like to repeat the words of the brown shepherdess, that of the Song of Songs heated or burned by your love, because your love warms and burns and heals and transforms, and she said to you, while she did not see you but loved you and felt you beside: "Tell me where you lead your flock to graze and where you rest in the moment of great heat."

I know where you lead your flock.

I know where you go to rest in the moment of great heat.

I know that you called me, elected, justified, gratified.

But I cultivate the sincere desire to come to you by trampling on your footsteps, loving your silence, looking for you when oxen or the storm rages.

Don't let me stagger on the waves of the sea. I could totally sink.

I'd like to shout with Maria di Magdala too:

“Christ, my hope is risen.

It precedes us in the Galilee of the Gentiles "

And I will come to you, running, to see you and tell you:

"My Lord, my God."

Sequence

May the sacrifice of praise rise to the paschal victim today.
The lamb has redeemed its flock,
the Innocent has reconciled us sinners with the Father.
Death and Life met in a prodigious duel.
The Lord of life was dead; but now, alive, it triumphs.
"Tell us, Maria: what did you see on the way?".
"The tomb of the living Christ, the glory of the risen Christ,
and the angels his witnesses, the shroud and his clothes.
Christ, my hope, is risen; and precedes you in Galilee. "
Yes, we are sure: Christ is truly risen.
You, victorious King, bring us your salvation.

START A NEW LIFE

Give us, O Lord,
to start a new life
in the sign of the resurrection of your Son.
Let us not listen to ourselves,
our feelings,
our habits, our fears,
but we let ourselves be invaded
from that fullness of Spirit,
Easter gift,
that you spread in the resurrection of your Son,
in baptism, in the Eucharist
and in the sacrament of reconciliation.
We are sure of your love;
we believe your salvation.
Amen. Hallelujah.