Jesus, I look at You.
I am happy in my suffering,
in it You offer me union
and a path to heaven.
Jesus, in agony, in darkness,
the love for You awakens in me,
in Your wounds I die to myself
in blissful solitude.
Jesus, You allowed me to find You.
Now, when I have run out of all my strength,
failure, fear have paralyzed me,
when I had already lost hope.
Jesus, I scream with joy!
For You have never been closer to me
than here. And You give Yourself to me from the cross.
You, in Your fullness.
(Carmelite proper, memorial of Titus Brandsma, hymn for prayer with reading)
