Ite Missa Est (Source Unknown)
I came, with my sins, my troubles,
my weakness, my limitations,
I go with the life of Christ, with the Host
in my soul;
Let me go as a host
offered with Him and for love of Him
to all those with whom I shall come Into
contact today.
Let me be to them a Christ, loving with His
love,
not with sentimentality and selfishness,
not asking for anything,
but with my own heart an altar of sacrifice,
where He shall be offered for them,
in patience, in submission,
in compassion, in service,
in cooperation, in abnegation,
in wrestling with self,
and, please God, in dying to self.
Let Him be a host lifted in me,
in places where otherwise no Host comes.
Let me show you His beauty,
His simplicity, His attractiveness,
in laughter, in tenderness,
in my interest in their affairs
in seeing the good in them,
fostering their aspirations,
making myself, my heart –
not only the outside of me –
accessible to them.
Let me reveal Him even when I fail;
in humility, in acknowledging my faults
without servility, without morbidity
without the vanity which is amazed by its
own failure;
but asking forgiveness and going on,
trusting Him.
Let me work with His devotion
to duty, to the will of God,
and for the glory of God;
let my soul be His Nazareth;
let Christ in me be among my fellow workers,
and be in ways I shall not know,
light to them and strength.
Let them be happier because in me,
He has, with exquisite courtesy, chosen
to be among them.
I have been this morning in Heaven,
And Heaven has come to abide in me;
let me take Heaven with me into the world,
Most of all, Lord, You who are in my soul,
Can adore God as I cannot,
do you adore Him for me, and in me.
Win for us, Lord, the kind smile
of Our Father;
let Him see in each one of us,
not ourselves, but You,
His beloved Son, in whom He is
well pleased. Amen.
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