The church has taught for many
years
This wondrous mystery,
The pain and suffering Jesus
bore
He offered up for me.
Sometimes I shuddered at the
thought
Of all His tortured pain,
How could the Lord agree to
such
To cleanse my sinful stain?
Could love there be so great as
this,
To suffer so and die
For such a thoughtless
wanderer,
Ungrateful one as I?
Then Fr. Leo asked himself
What gift would she prefer?
I know the best; I'll offer up
A birthday mass for her.
Despite clogged vessels in his
heart
He reverently knelt:
How great his effort to endure
The pain and weakness felt:
If man (though priest) can suffer
so
And offer it for me
How can I doubt the Lord would
too
That I from sin be free?
How glorious that I should feel
God's love embracing me
Revealed by him whom He has
sent
To guide and counsel me.
Fr. Leo offered up a mass as a birthday
present for me when he had serious heart troubles. My note says it was offered up on August 24,
but doesn't give the year.
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