Love
everyone, hate no one. Forgive everyone, judge no one.
Holy Mass Reading
for September 12, 2024: The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 6, 27-38.
Jesus
said to his disciples : "To you who hear I say, love your
enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,
pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one
cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes
your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.
Give
to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours
do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even
sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do
good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If
you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit
(is) that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same
amount.
But
rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting
nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children
of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the
wicked. Be merciful, just as (also) your Father is merciful. Stop
judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not
be condemned.
Forgive
and you will be forgiven.
Give
and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together,
shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the
measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to
you."
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Whenever
Saint Mechtilde (a mystic nun 1241 -1298) recited this prayer, she
saw legions of souls from Purgatory ascend to Heaven.
OUR
FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, I beseech You, O Heavenly Father, pardon
the Souls in Purgatory, for they did not love You sufficiently, nor
render to You all the honor which is Your due, due to You their Lord
and Father, Who, by pure grace, have adopted them as Your children.
By their sins, rather, have they driven You from their souls, where
You none the less wished always to live. In reparation for these
faults, I offer You the love and veneration which Your Incarnate Son
showed You all during His earthly life, and I offer all the acts of
penance and satisfaction which He performed and by which He effaced
and atoned for the sins of men.
HALLOWED
BE THY NAME, I beg You, O Father Most Good, pardon the Souls in
Purgatory, for they did not honor, always and fittingly, Your Holy
Name, but often they took It in vain and proved unworthy of the name
"Christian", by their lives of sin. In reparation for their
faults, I offer to You all the honor which Your Well-Beloved Son
rendered to Your Name by His words and deeds.
THY
KINGDOM COME; I pray You, Father Most Good, pardon the Souls in
Purgatory, for they did not always seek or adore Your Kingdom with
enough fervor and diligence; this Kingdom, the only place where true
rest and peace reign. In reparation for their omissions, through
indifference to do what is good, I offer You the Most Holy Desire of
Your Son, by which He wished that they also might become heirs of His
Kingdom.
THY
WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN; I pray You, Father Most
Good, pardon the Souls in Purgatory, for they did not always submit
their will to Your Will. In reparation for their disobedience, I
offer You the perfect conformity of the Heart, full of love, of Your
Divine Son with Your Holy Will and the most profound submission which
He showed in obeying You unto death on the Cross.
GIVE
US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD; I pray You, Father Most Good, pardon the
Souls in Purgatory, for they did not always receive the Holy
Sacrament of the Eucharist with enough desire, but often without
contemplation, or love, or even unworthily, or they neglected to
receive It. In reparation for these faults, I offer You the
outstanding Holiness and the great contemplation of Our Lord Jesus
Christ, Your Divine Son, addressed to You in favor of His enemies
when He was on the Cross.
FORGIVE
US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US; I pray
You, Father Most Good, pardon the Souls in Purgatory, all the faults
of which they have been guilty through succumbing to the Seven deadly
Sins and also in not having wished either to love or pardon their
enemies. In reparation for these faults, I offer You the out-standing
Holiness and the great contemplation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your
Divine Son, addressed to You in favor of His enemies when he was on
the Cross.
AND
LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION; I pray You, Father Most Good, pardon the
Souls in Purgatory, because too often they did not resist the
pitfalls of the devil and the flesh, but they followed the Enemy of
all goodness. In reparation for all these sins, in thought, word, and
deed, I offer You the glorious victory which Our Lord won against the
world, as well as His Most Holy Life, His Work and Sorrows, His
Suffering and His Most Cruel Death.
BUT
DELIVER US FROM EVIL; and from all punishments through the Infinite
Merits of Your Well-Beloved Son and lead us, as well as the Souls in
Purgatory, into Your Kingdom of eternal glory. Amen.
St.
Mechtilde was born Matilda von Hackenberg-Wippra around the year
1240. She came from a noble family in Saxony, and when she was seven
years old, she was so inspired by the lives of the nuns that she went
to live at the convent of Helfta. She learned a great deal there, and
was known for her humility and her fervent love for God.
Mechtilde was
close with the child who would become St. Gertrude the Great, who was
given to the nuns at Helfta when she was five. Mechtilde was 15 years
older, and took Gertrude under her wing. They shared a strong
spirituality and devotion to Christ’s humanity and the Eucharist.
Both nuns were
known to be mystics. Mechtilde had her first mystical vision when she
received Holy Communion. Jesus appeared to her and held her hands.
She said he left an imprint on her heart “like a seal in wax,”
and gave her his own heart in the form of a cup, saying, “By my
heart you will praise me always; go, offer to all the saints the
drink of life from my heart that they may be happily inebriated with
it.”
In another
vision, Mechtilde wrote that she had seen that “the smallest
details of creation are reflected in the Holy Trinity by means of the
humanity of Christ, because it is from the same earth that produced
them that Christ drew his humanity.”
Because of her
visions, Mechtilde was highly revered by her community, and
considered a prophet and counsellor. St. Gertrude recorded her
teachings and visions in the “Book of Special Grace.”
St. Mechtilde
died on Nov. 19, 1298.
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