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Three times in a row by the word of love In questioning after the meal, A triple negation From Peter (stone), you healed him. In me, even questioned a thousand times, Good plots do not appear; Heal the wound of the injury And put ointment deeply within it, So that I might be pierced by your love And that my heart embrace you, As the Sage sang (in the Song of Songs) The love of the spouse towards the beloved. And kindly direct the way, as you did for her So that I follow you to heaven, Although such a thing is impossible for me, But quite possible for you.

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This prayer can be summed up in three points which constitute the sum of salvation and even of perfection, so that we can not add anything to it: namely, that the disciples are kept from evil, sanctified in the truth and glorified with him. “Father,” he said, “I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can contemplate your glory” (Jn 17,24). Happy those for whom the judge himself pleads: he intercedes for them and must be loved with as much honor as the one to whom he addresses his prayers. The Father will not refuse him the wish of his lips, because he shares with him a single will and one power, since there is only one God. Everything he asks will necessarily be accomplished, because his word is powerful and his will efficacious. For everything that exists, “he said and it was done, he commanded and it was created” (PS 32.9). “I want,” he said, “that where I am, they are too with me”. What certainty for believers! Provided, at least, that they do not reject the grace they received. Because this insurance is not offered to the apostles only, or to their companions, but to all those who by their word will believe in the Word of God: “I do not pray for them only, he says, but for those also who thanks to their word will believe in me” (Jn 17,20).

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“They that uselessly observe vanities have forsaken their own mercy” (cf. Jon 2:9 LXX). By nature God is merciful and ready to save through clemency those whom he is unable to save by justice. As for us, through our vice we lose the mercy reserved for us and offering itself to us. (…) Although mercy may be offended, namely God Himself, for “God is merciful and good, patient and full of pity” (cf. Ps 144:8 LXX), yet mercy does not abandon those attached to vanities, she does not curse them, but waits for them to return, while they intentionally abandon the mercy which is in front of them. (…) “But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving. All that I have vowed I will pay to thee, Lord of my salvation” (cf. Jon 2:10 LXX). (…) But I, who have been devoured for the salvation of the many, in offering myself will offer a sacrifice in accents of praise and thanksgiving. For “Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed” (1 Cor 5:7). True Pontiff and Lamb, he offered himself for us. — And I will give you thanks, he says, as I gave you thanks when I said: “I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth” (cf. Mt 11:25) and fulfil those vows I made for the salvation of all, so that “nothing you have given me should ever perish” (cf. Jn 6:39) We see what, in his passion, the Lord promised for our salvation. Let us not make Jesus a liar, and let us be pure, detached from all sin, so that he may offer us to God, to whom he had promised us.
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