Hebrews 10: 5-10

10: By this "will," I have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

You gave up your own son, your flesh and bone, if you have it, to save me. I haven't done much to return the favor, but I am trying. Tomorrow I will go to prayer for you because you died for me. I will obey your will. I have a feeling I won't like it very much, especially if my eyes are aligned over in society but I will adapt. You know my heart, and you know my future. Lord, I pray that I continue to fall for you. Amen.

First: Acceptance of Parents

My Lord, if I have ever despised or been ashamed of my parents, from this day on I accept them with tenderness and love. I ask forgiveness for my ungratefulness, and from your hands I accept them with gratitude and with real emotion. Even though they may have died, I still welcome them and embrace them. I love them; I accept them totally and completely in the mystery of Your will. Thank you for the gift of my parents, and may their memory be blessed forever.

Second: Acceptance of My Body

My Father, source of life, grant me the grace to befriend myself. If I have ever felt ashamed of the way that I am, I ask Your forgiveness,  Creator of my life and my existence. Forgive my callousness and ungratefulness. From this moment on, I want to feel contented with who I am, happy to be as I am. I praise You, I adore You, and I thank You for these hands, this face, this body. I bless you for having made me as I am. I surrender myself into Your hands, happy to be as I am.

Third: Acceptance of Sickness and Death

My Father, Lord of life and death. Grant me the grace to peacefully accept the painful mystery of life, illness, deterioration and death. Let me accept them in silence and peace without complaints and without tears. I remember that Your Son transformed the most negative and worthless things in the world, such as pain and death, into a fountain of redemption and eternal life. From this moment on, I too want to transform my pain and my death into fertile fountains of redemption. From this moment on, I want to suffer with Jesus and like Jesus. Into Your hands, Father, I surrender my life and my death, my sickness and my health. Amen.

Fourth: Acceptance of Personality (forgiveness-love)

My Father, into Your hands I place myself, with the little that I am, happy to be as I am. If I have ever felt despondent or embarrassed about myself, I ask your forgiveness for having been ashamed of the work of Your hands. I thank You for having given me the capacity to think and to know that I carry your divine and immortal breath. Grant me the grace to forgive and love my strange personality. Through Your will, I forgive and love so many things about myself, which, until now, have annoyed me so much. Into Your hands, I place the little that I am, happy to be as I am, my own friend. Thy will be done.

Fifth: Acceptance of my Past

My God, Lord of my life, grant me the grace to transform pain into love; those who never understood me, those who could never accept me and always rejected me, those who attacked me with lies, half truths and slander, those who gave me sleepless nights and days full of tears. From this moment on, I want to transform all of those painful memories into an offering of love, and silently surrender them into the depths of Your will.

Thy will be done.

The soul's resistance, the heart's resentments, life's rebellions, inner struggles, private conflicts, painful memories, flawed personality traits, life's unhealed wounds, turmoil, tears, my soul's wails... I want to reduce it all to silence, in honor of my love for Your holy and mysterious will. Thy will be done.

Everything I was and shouldn't have been, everything that I did and shouldn't have done, everything that I said and shouldn't have said, I place forever into the eternal oblivion of Your heart. Thy will be done.

Those people who hurt me so...

Those first enemies...

That first failure and then that other one, which was the worst one in my life...

That mistake which I regretted so much afterwards...

Those undertakings that collapsed and we all know whose fault that was...

Those ideals that I was never able to attain...

My Lord, my Lord, at this moment all of that bloody, painful mass is transformed into a fragrant offering of love, and placed forever upon the altar of Your will. Let this be the moment of my rebirth, because my past will remain forgotten and erased forever and everything will begin anew. Like a newborn child, today I can start to walk freely and happily.

In Your name, Lord. Amen

Sixth: Forgiveness in the Spirit of Jesus

O, Holy Spirit, almighty power of God, in this moment may my feelings be the feelings of Jesus.

Lord Jesus, You who did and were resurrected, and are present here at this moment, enter into my being. Possess me completely. Make Yourself vividly present in my body and my spirit, and take complete control over my feelings, my thoughts, what I am and what I have. At this moment, let Your feelings be my feelings; Your emotions, my emotions, Your eyes my eyes, Your arms my arms.

Christ Jesus, almighty loving Lord, calm this storm of resentment and hostility that I feel towards that person. I want to feel what You feel for her right now, what You felt when You died on the cross for her salvation. Pardon that person from the depths of my being. Transform my feelings into Your feelings. Love and forgive that person from within me, instead of me, with me. I want to forgive that person like You do, love her like You do, feel what You feel for her. I want to see that person through Your eyes and embrace them with Your arms. I care for her. I understand her. I forgive her. I love that person, like You, my Lord.

Her, You and I, the three united as one; the three of us in a close embrace; Her, You, and I; I, You and Her; You, Her and I, in a tender embrace; more than forgiving that person, I understand. I love, I care for her...