Prayer to the Risen Jesus

The Mariological foundation: Mary’s intercession with the risen Christ

The prayer of praise: paschal joy in the power of Christ and the maternal presence of Mary

We give You thanks for having returned to us after Your death and descent into hell, even after having tasted the utmost abandonment.

For having remembered our small abandonment and overcome it with the fullness of Your presence.

Although You suffered the death that we ourselves caused by the weight of our sins, You returned to us as our brother, bringing us the gift of Your redemption.

You did not make us pay for having brought You to the cross: instead, You made us sharers in Your joy, celebrating the new encounter.

As if we had never been unfaithful, as if we had always waited for You with faith and trust, as if we could add something to Your happiness.

We are those whom You redeemed, and yet You remain our brother. Lord, grant us the gift of being grateful.

Grant that from now on thanksgiving to You and to Your Mother may always accompany us.

Grant us to be the redeemed who accompany You everywhere, who seek to do Your will as You do the will of the Father.

May we taste not only the fruit of Your Passion and of Your redemption, but may we from now on seek to understand that You are always among us, as our brother, as our true Savior. May we seek never to forget that You answered our infidelity with faithfulness, and our lack of faith with an even greater grace.

Grant that each day, whether difficult or peaceful, may be transformed into a day full of joy, manifest or hidden, in knowing that You have redeemed us and that You will take us with You on Your return to the Father.

We ask You, give us Your paschal blessing, together with the blessing of the Father and of the Spirit.

Amen.

To delve deeper into the relationship between Mary and the Christian life of prayer, we recommend Paul VI’s apostolic exhortation Marialis Cultus.

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