Jesus personally addresses His
Father in the Lord’s Prayer. “Forgive
Your Son, o Father, if I wronged You in any way. I may also seem
imperfect to Your Perfection, I, Your Christ, burdened by flesh.”
The
evening of the Wednesday before Passover. Last Teachings to the
Apostles:
«And
now let us pray together. This is the last evening we can pray thus,
all united like grapes to the bunch supporting them. Come. Let us
pray. "Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy
Kingdom come. Thy will be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive
them that trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil. Amen. "
"Hallowed
be Thy Name." Father, I have hallowed it. Have mercy on Your
Son.
"Thy
Kingdom come." I am dying in order to establish it. Have mercy
on Me.
"Thy
will be done." Support My weakness, You Who created the flesh of
man and clothed Your Word with it, that I may obey You down here as I
have always obeyed You in Heaven. Have mercy on the Son of man.
"Give
us our Bread"... A bread for the soul. A bread not of this
Earth. I do not ask it for Myself. I need only Your spiritual
comfort. But I, the Beggar, stretch out My hand for them. Before long
it will be pierced and nailed, and it will no longer be able to make
a gesture of love. But it can still do it now. Father, grant Me to
give them the Bread that daily fortifies the weakness of the poor
children of Adam. They are weak, Father, they are inferior, because
they do not have the Bread that is strength, the angelical Bread that
spiritualizes man and leads him to be deified in Us.
"Forgive
us our trespasses"...»
Jesus
Who has spoken standing and has prayed with His arms stretched out,
now kneels down and raises His arms and face to Heaven. A face made
wan by the effort of the supplication and by the kiss of the moon,
furrowed by silent tears.
«Forgive
Your Son, o Father, if I wronged You in any way. I may also seem
imperfect to Your Perfection, I, Your Christ, burdened by flesh. To
men... no. My conscious intellect assures Me that I have done
everything for them. But forgive Your Jesus... I also forgive. I
forgive, that You may forgive Me. How much I have to forgive! How
much!... And yet I forgive. Those who are present here, the disciples
who are absent, those whose hearts are deaf, My enemies, mockers,
traitors, killers, deicides... Here. I have forgiven the whole of
Mankind. With regard to Me, o Father, consider remitted all debts of
man to the Man. I am dying in order to give Your Kingdom to
everybody,
and I do not want the sin against the Love incarnate to be imputed to
them as condemnation. No? Are You saying no? It is My grief. This
"no" is pouring the first sip of the bitter chalice into My
heart. But Father, Whom I have always obeyed, I say to You: "Thy
will be done".
"Lead
us not into temptation". Oh! if You want, You can drive the
demon away from us! He is the temptation that incites flesh, minds,
hearts. He is the Seducer. Turn him away, Father! Your archangel in
our favor! To put to flight him who lays snares for us from our birth
to our death!... Oh! Holy Father, have mercy on Your children!
"Deliver
us, deliver us from evil!" You can. We are weeping here...
Heaven is so beautiful and we are afraid of losing it. You say: "My
Blood cannot lose it". But I want You to see the Man in Me, the
Firstborn of men. I am their brother. I pray for them and with them.
Father, mercy! Oh! mercy!. ..»
Jesus
bends with His face on the ground. He then stands up. «Let us go.
Let us say goodbye to one another this evening. It will no longer be
possible tomorrow evening. We shall be too upset. And there is no
love where there is perturbation. Let us kiss one another with the
kiss of peace. Tomorrow... tomorrow each of you will belong to
himself... This evening we can still be one for all and all for one.»
And
He kisses them, one by one, beginning from Peter, then Matthew,
Simon, Thomas, Philip, Bartholomew, the Iscariot, His two cousins,
James of Zebedee, Andrew and last John, on whom He leans while
leaving Gethsemane.
Chapter
597 in the Gospel
as Revealed to Me:
The Night of the Wednesday before Passover. Last Teachings to the
Apostles.
