MASS WITH FIRST COMMUNICANTS
Gospel Reading: John 10:27-30
I give my sheep eternal life.
Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.”
Saint’s Words:
If your confidence were as great as it ought to be, you would not worry about what may happen to you; you would place it all in God’s hands, hoping that when he wants something of you he will let you know what it is.
--Claude de la Colombiere, letter
Prayer:
Father and maker of all, you adorn all creation with splendor and beauty, and fashion human lives in your image and likeness. Awaken in every heart reverence for the work of your hands, and renew among your people a readiness to nurture and sustain your precious gift of life.
O Jesus, You have stretched out your hands to comfort me, and I have seized those hands. You have loved me with an infinite love and I have taken advantage of that love to sin all the more against you. O Jesus, let your Blood be upon me, not for a curse, but for a blessing. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on me. Amen.
