GOD TAKES NO PLEASURE IN THE EXTINCTION OF THE LIVING
PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MASS 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. Mass Readings Lectures de la Messe Reflection First Reading Wisdom 1:13-15,2:23-24 God takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living Death was not God’s doing, he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living. To be – for this he created all; the world’s created things have health i