A Prayer for Holy Thursday
 

O Lord Jesus, in order that the merits of your sacrifice on the Cross might be applied to every soul of all time, you willed that it should be renewed upon the altar.

At the Last Supper, you said: "Do this in remembrance of me." By these words you gave your apostles and their successors the power to consecrate and to the command to do what you yourself did.

The Mass is both a sacrifice and a memorial, re-enacting your passion, death and resurrection. Help me to understand that the Mass is the greatest gift of God to us and our greatest gift to God.

Amen