NOBLE APPEARANCE
PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S Act of Love before Mass TUESDAY 33 WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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. Readings Lectures Reflection First Reading Meccabees 6:18-31 I will make a good death, eagerly and generously, for the holy laws Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, was being forc