From Grace de Lange, East London:
In light of the horrendous reports on the sexual abuses I also feel a Sunday Mass offered for the consolation of those so horrifically betrayed might be an occasion for the Church — us — to show our solidarity and be seen as an attempt to ask their forgiveness.
We cannot feel their terrible pain, but we can attempt to take it to our suffering Lord at Holy Mass, and somehow their suffering could be melded with his and their dreadful burden lightened…even a little.
At this time the prayer of St Gertrude is even more necessary. It is understood to have been dictated by Our Lord himself.
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen
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