Lord, heart full of mystery
Since your love surpasses all knowledge, lift up our too weak understanding to the sublime height of your heart!
Since we are tempted to not believe in your love, give us new eyes to see the incredible, to recognize the endless immensity of your goodness.
Since our gaze remains attached to material and visible realities, may your heart illumine our view of the world, make us understand the deep meaning of creation, open to us the secret of the destiny of all things, called to meet again in your love.
Since we acknowledge in humanity and its history so many faults and wrong turns, which could incline us to pessimism, lift up again our optimism by showing us how your love manages to use evil for the sake of good, to transform human dispositions, to supernaturally direct the march of events in the direction of your heart!
Since we ourselves experience the force of evil, make us know by experience the greater power of your love, and make us discern how your heart is at the center of our life and at the center of the world, where the triumph of charity is established more and more!
–by Jean Galot, SJ