ASH WEDNESDAY
ASH WEDNESDAY: RETURN TO GOD PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S Act of Love before Mass O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseparably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Lectures First Reading(s) Joel 2:12-18 Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn ‘Now, now it is the Lord who speaks come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning.’ Let ...