The Father and I are One
“I came from the Father and have come into the world; again I leave the world and go to the Father” (John 16:28)
Dear friend, I invite you to this profound prayer, for which you must properly prepare yourself.
It is important that you try to achieve profound silence: Sit in a quiet and serene place, breathe deeply, serenely… several times, being aware of your breathing and how you feel increasingly flooded with peace and stillness. Remove from your mind everything that might disturb that stillness: thoughts, reasoning, memories… Take your time.
Now, once you feel internalized and predisposed to your experience of prayer, enthrone God in your mind, so that there are no other thoughts. Only His presence, in a gentle and loving silence.
And I also enthrone God in your heart, so that you may not want or desire anything less than God.
At this moment, recognize that the Spirit of God is at work within you, and with the following prayer, ask for light and clarity:
Once more, Lord, we live a profound intimacy
Each one of us feels his life marvelously invaded by your life.
We are now living the adventure of your life in our life, your strength in our weakness,
Your vigor in our helplessness. Your light has entered the paths of y being. You are light for my path. I know that only in your light, Lord, will I be able to build my life beautifully.
I know you live in the light and that you live in the light, and that You have passed on some of this light to us. But unfortunately, all is darkness on our part. Lord, people seem content to walk in the dark. They seem content walking as blind people, with a bandage over their eyes. They do not want to see. This is also my sin; very often I do not want to see.
I fear that if I look at my life, I will have to change I implore You Lord: open my eyes in this instant of honesty, I am sure, Lord, I am certain I want to see. Let your light penetrate my darkness, now. Light. Clarity. Brightness. Blinding light. Transparent Clearness. Illuminating Flash. I want to see, Lord, I want to see. Amen.
Prayer E-3 “Clarity”
Now, with the help of the Holy Spirit, and with great concentration, try to imagine Jesus praying to the Father. Try to enter with great reverence into Jesus’ intimacy to grasp, feel, and experience what Jesus felt: his emotion, his surrender, and his profound adoration… feeling himself one with the Father.
This prayer is Trinitarian: Jesus Christ and you praying to the Father, in a loving relationship, which is the Holy Spirit.
This was Jesus’ permanent inner temperature when he prayed, always facing his beloved Father. The Son looks at the Father, and the Father looks at the Son. The Son feels looked upon by the Father… and this mutual gaze is like a mantle that envelops the two in a warm embrace of tenderness. Place yourself in this same intimacy before the Father. The beloved son is now you.
Always moved by the Holy Spirit, place yourself within Jesus and try to experience what Jesus felt when he said:
Leave at least a minute of deep silence between each sentence.
- Abba, dear Father, everything you give me comes from you.
- Eternal life is that you be known, the only true God.
- Dear Father, not as I will, but as You will.
- You remain in me mysteriously, like an ever-present friend, fulfilling all my aspirations.
- I came from You and I will return to you, O my Father!
- All that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine; I possess all creation with you; for the whole universe belongs to you.
- Holy Father, before the world existed, you loved me.
- Holy Father, just as you are in me, I am in you.
- My Father, your will be done.
Dear friend, up to this point, you have placed yourself within Jesus to pray to the Father, from Him; But before leaving this prayer to resume your life, your work, your home… That is, before returning to the world, ask the Lord Jesus Christ to enter you, so that you may think, see, speak, and act like Him, so that He may live in you and through you.
Ask Him with the following prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ may your presence overwhelm my total being and your likeness be engraved with fire in my heart, so that I may walk in the light of your image, think as you thought, feel as you felt, behave the way You behaved, talk as You talked, dream as You dreamed, and love as You loved.
May I like You, be unconcerned about myself to be concerned for others; to be insensitive to myself and sensitive towards other; to sacrifice myself, and at the same time, encourage and give hope to others.
May I like you, be sensitive and merciful, patient, meek and humble, genuine and true. That your favorites, the poor; may also be my favorites, Your goals become my goals. That seeing me, others may see You and that I may be a transparency of your Being and you Love. Amen
E.48 In the Likeness of Jesus