Jesus, who is my sigh and my immense desire, as I raise You today with trembling at the celebration of the immense mystery of love, grant me to be for this world a Way, Truth, and Life along with You, and for You then a perfect sacrificial gift.
(Pater Pio, OFMCap /1887–1968/, prayer on the day of priestly ordination, August 10, 1910)