In this Easter season, we greet you and welcome you to live this prayer.
On May 31st, we will celebrate the centenary of the canonization of our founder, a prophet of Love: by showing us the Heart of Jesus, he invites us to draw from the source of Christian life, Christ, to welcome this marvellous gift of the Heart as a fountain of love, a furnace of love and to allow "the formation of Jesus in us".
With Saint John Eudes, we can say: "Come and live your Risen life in me".
"O Jesus, you love us so much that it's madness to love us as you love us!
You love us with all your heart, with all your being. You are CHARITY.
Your charity knows no measure. You put our interests before your own. Your life, your time, everything you are and have, you give for us. You submitted to suffering and death to lead us to happiness. You ask us to have only one heart with our neighbor, whoever he may be.
For you, everyone, especially the smallest, is a part of you, a member of your body. You ask us to love them with the same heart and love with which we love you, our God.
I give myself to you, that I look at the other as you look at him, out of your heart; that I love him as you love him. Untiringly, support me."
Beloved, let us love one another, since love comes from God. He who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love has not known God, for God is love. This is how God's love has manifested itself among us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. This is what love is: we did not love God, but he loved us, and sent his Son as a sacrifice of forgiveness for our sins. Beloved, since God has loved us so much, we too must love one another.
R. To love is to give everything
To love is to give everything
To love is to give everything
And to give oneself.
1. When I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
If I have not Love, I am like sounding brass
Or a clanging cymbal
2. If I prophesied and knew all mysteries,
If I had faith to move mountains,
Without Love, I'm nothing!
3. When I distribute what I possess in alms,
And if I give my body to burn in flames, It's no use to me.
Let us turn to the Lord with gratitude:
Lord, who for our sake became obedient unto death, - teach us to always follow the Father's will.
You who gave us your Heart, make us worthy to be like it.
You who gave Saint John Eudes an admirable ardor to make known the love of your Heart and the Heart of your Mother, - give us the power to show it to men and women through our charity.
You who chose your servant John to lead men and women on the road to salvation, let us share in his zeal for your glory.
Our Father...
God, who chose St. John Eudes to proclaim the incomparable riches of Christ, grant us to follow his example and teachings so that we may know you better and live more faithfully in the light of the Gospel, Amen.
The angel of the Lord brought the announcement to Mary,
and she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with you.
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is your child Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death.
Amen, amen, alleluia.
Behold the handmaid of the Lord,
May it be done to me according to his Word.
Hail Mary, ...
And the Word became flesh,
and dwelt among us.
Hail Mary, ...
Words and music: Fr. J.-B. du Jonchay, o.c.d.
Based on the Angelus Prayer
1995, Fr. J.-B. du Jonchay, o.c.d.
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