This sunday we present on the altar our petitions, incorporating our feminine and masculine desires, so that the Lord can unify our dreams and make us better companions on the way, responding:

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

• Help us so that we women and men continue to live together in increasing harmony and plenitude in our family, workplace and social life,

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

• May our families be spaces of love, growth, reconciliation and cheerful expectation,

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

• Teach us to live as a family, to express our love, to have a simple welcoming table and hearth where each member can develop her or his personality,

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

• Make us all dynamic in our generosity and family warmth so we can welcome the old people, immigrants and strangers with affection,

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

• Promote in the institutions, company owners and government officials the will to conciliate labour obligations with family and social life,

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

• May we all together continue to build the great human family of your children, your kingdom,

YOU KNOW US WELL, FATHER

Receive, Father, everything we present to you today, together with the bread and wine and help us to make it all come true. Amen.

Mari Patxi Ayerra

Traducción de Hugo Castelli