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OPENING PRAYER
We come to walk with you, Jesus, confident that you will lead us into the presence of God. We choose you as the model for our life journey. Your journey to the cross simply dramatizes what your whole life has been: an offering of praise to God and of loving service to humanity. This is what we want for our lives, too. Like the rest of your life, your passion and death were acts of praise-a response to God *s infinite love for you. We, too, want to praise God in sharing your cross-not simply out of a dreary sense of responsibility or guilt, but as a grateful response to the good news of your burning love for us. In your loving face and wounded body, we have a powerful image of God*s care for us. Saints like Francis of Assisi shed streams of tears as they contemplated this outpouring of God*s love.
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Christ Jesus,
open our hearts to your amazing love.
As we walk with you on this way of the cross,
help us respond with praise
and grieve over our failure to return your love. |
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