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The entire arc of Blessed Fr. Alberione’s life was a fabric woven with apostolic action and of prayer, according to the Benedictine motto that was familiar to him, and which he translated as norm for his people: “Prayer in the first place, above everything else, life of everything.” (CISP 97).
Just as Jesus, to the Twelve who pleaded that he taught them how to pray, proposed the formula “Our Father,” so did Father Alberione – while intensely living a life of prayer – taught it to his people by means of formulas held as concrete vehicles of a spirit, “containers” of a heritage destined to last.
(here is one of the prayers)
Pauline Offertory
Father, in union with all those who today celebrate the Eucharist, I wish to offer myself, a small victim, with Jesus, the Victim:
– in atonement for error and scandal spread throughout the world through the misuse of the media of social communication;
– to appeal to your mercy for those persons, who deceived and seduced by the influence of these instruments stray from your fatherly love;
– for the conversion of those persons who in the use of these instruments reject the teaching of Christ and his Church and thus warp the minds, the hearts, and the undertakings of men and women;
– that we may follow him alone whom you, Father, in your boundless love, sent into the world, saying: “This is my beloved Son, hear him”;
– to acknowledge and to make known that Jesus alone, the Word Incarnate, is the perfect Teacher, the trustworthy Way who leads to knowledge of you, Father, and to a partaking of your life;
– that there be in the Church an increase in the number of priests, religious, and lay persons who, consecrated as apostles of social communication, will make resound throughout the world the message of salvation;
– that all those who work within the framework of social communication may grow in holiness and wisdom and bear witness to an authentic Christian life;
– that the undertakings of Catholics within the sphere of social communication may continually increase so that by promoting more effectively genuine human and Christian values the voice of error and evil will be counteracted;
– that well aware of our insufficiency and unworthiness we may realize the need to draw near the font of life in all humility and trust and to be nourished with your word, Father, and with the body of Christ, invoking light, love and mercy for all men and women.
God Bless