Lord God, we lie before Your Most Holy Face in all our helplessness! We are the graveyard of our own sins, we are the graveyard of Your righteous judgment…
Lord God, may we be led by Your breath, pass over us in the intoxication of Your Holy Spirit! Enter into our stone bodies, enter into our stone hearts, enter into our stone spirit! Lord God, may the roaring power of Your creation be unleashed! Do not allow our sins to be greater; do not allow our despair to be greater; do not allow our unapproachability to be greater! Pass over us, Lord God, in the power of Your fire, in the power of Your whirlwind!
Speak Your Word, by which the heavens and the earth were created! Speak Your Word, by which in the hour of Golgotha the New Covenant was established! Speak Your Word, in this our hour, so that we may become Your new nation, Your new church, Your new western civilization! Awaken us from sleep, that the spring of Your light, the spring of Your love, the spring of Your life in us may be awakened. May You overwhelm us with Your infinite love! Holy God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, may You flow over us, may You flow through us, may You flow from us to the whole world! May heaven and earth become a single current, a single wave and surge of Your light, Your love, Your life, single three times holy Easter.
(Erich Przywara SJ /1889–1972/, Prayers of this Age, 14; during the time of World War II)
