Prayer formulated by H.E. Mons. Claudio Gatti on 15th May 2005

Feast of Pentecost

God One and Triune, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, truly present here in the Eucharistic mystery. We, before you, blessed Divine Trinity, bow in adoration with a spirit of appreciation and gratitude.

Our heart, O Jesus, surged with joy, burst with love. A few years ago, You said this very sentence, on the occasion of the Eucharistic miracle that took place on June 6, 1999, when the Eucharist not only bled, but Your blood passed through the glass vial that kept You and rested on the corporal below. You said: "My blood showed, because my Heart burst with love". Well, oh Lord, while we were following You, and this is the right term, our hearts burst with joy and we said: "Only to You, my God, our praise, honor and glory".

It is a profound, indescribable joy to honor you in the best possible way. You don't want big things, but you want them to be done with the heart. My Lord, You read in our hearts, you know that everything accomplished in these days and, especially today, was truly done with the heart. It cost sacrifice, work, it caused fatigue and sometimes tension, but everything was covered by the love that You taught us to show in every moment of our day and our life.

O Lord, we are happy, because today You are happy, we are radiant, because You are radiant, we are proud, because this moment of joy satisfies You, despite so much suffering, so much bitterness and disappointment that the Earth and the Church is reserving for You.

We pray to you, my God and we adore you in the Eucharist, my God. We accept all the sacraments that you, O Lord Jesus, have established. We love the Church for which you sacrificed and died. We love, in a particular way, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals and the Supreme Pontiff, even if unfortunately among them, and this is a painful mystery, so many Judas are hiding and lurking.

O Lord, today we entrust Your Church to You because You instituted it, you founded it, it was born from your side, you made it rise from your wounds and Blood. Today, the day of Pentecost, we ask You that it returns to its origin and that in addition to being one, holy, Catholic, apostolic and Roman, it is also missionary and poor. And this we ask of you, also through Mary’s intercession.

On the day of Pentecost the charism of missionary spirit was given to your Church. You, God the Holy Spirit, showed through the wind, thunder and tongues of fire. Your presence has made strong and courageous those who, until recently, had shown as afraid and fearful people. You have turned weak creatures into pillars of the Church. In fact, those who first abandoned You, fearing even the simple people, later proclaimed You God, Son of God, Messiah, Savior, before the highest authorities; in this way they paid, with their blood, the testimony of love and fidelity that characterized their whole life.

And now we, O Lord, ask you that your apostles’ successors, the bishops’ collaborators, may live in an attitude of spontaneous and generous service and may no longer think about career, power, wealth and, even less, to disordered pleasure; on the contrary, let them think, O Lord, only of praising You, of rendering due worship to You and of serving You in their brothers, especially in the poor, the sick, the elderly, the needy, the prisoners, the drug addicts.

O Lord, make it possible for all of us to truly recognize you in the guise of a suffering brother, or sister and give that love that for too many centuries and for too long we have poured out only on ourselves, in a disordered way.

The one who sits on the throne of Peter today, a few weeks before being elected, had denounced that in the Church there was filth and arrogance and that Your priests, instead of celebrating You, celebrate themselves and when they celebrate the Eucharist they commit sacrileges: this is what the current Pope said when he was still a cardinal and this is the truth, a painful truth.

We see, Lord, through the fault of men, that Your Body is covered with Blood, covered with wounds and soiled by the mud of men. Now we are here, we want to cleanse You, we want to cover every wound and pour the balm of our love on it.

Lord, You who have really risen after the third day, resurrect your mystical Body too. O Holy Spirit, today we celebrate You and we ask You to infuse new vitality into the Church and to blow on the sails of Peter's boat and push it up to pure, luxuriant and peaceful shores. O Lord, we wish that your ship, the Church, is finally anchored to the two columns: the Eucharist and the Mother of the Eucharist; so your wish will come true, that is, may this ship accommodate all men i so that, truly, your promise will be fulfilled when there will be only one shepherd and one flock.

To the praise and glory of the Holy Trinity. Amen.