THE BIRTHDAY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MASS Act of Love beforeMass 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. Amen. Mass Readings Lectures de la Messe Reflection First Reading Isaiah 49:1-6 I will make you the light of the nations so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth Islands, listen to me, pay attention, remotest peoples. The Lord called me before I was born, from m