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An Interior Pilgrimage with The Interior Liturgy…

The Third Movement: the Liturgy of Communion.

The call is into communion: communion in love with persons here on earth, communion in love with the divine Persons in heaven, God the Holy Trinity.

This movement of the Interior Liturgy corresponds to the Holy Communion in the Mass.

• The 6th Station, the Station of Ecclesial Communion:
  “Thy kingdom come.”
• The 7th Station, the Station of Personal Communion:
  “Hallowed be thy name.”

The 6th Station of the Interior Liturgy: Station of Ecclesial Communion.

Our Petition: “Thy kingdom come.”
The sacrament corresponding to the 6th Station is Holy Orders. The grace of the Station configures us to the heart-priesthood of Christ, for communion among the members of His Church.

Meditation:

Holy Orders guarantees to the Church her ministerial priesthood, through whom we have the sacraments, and the presence of Christ the Head. All of us, however, are called into the priesthood of Christ: the priesthood of His Heart. The priesthood of the heart is a life of self-gift, because of love, given in the gathering of His Body the Church.
The Communion of the Saints is a beatitude second only to Communion in God, the Holy Trinity. This is the communion of the Church, the communion of love and service among the brothers and sisters of Christ Jesus. This is the new commandment: “Love one another as I have loved you.” (Jn 15:12) Love is the life of Christ.

Responsory:

Verse: Christ, high priest and unique mediator, has made of the Church “a kingdom, priests for his God and Father.” The whole community of believers is, as such, priestly. The faithful exercise their baptismal priesthood through their parti-cipation, each according to his own vocation, in Christ’s mission as priest, prophet, and king. Through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation the faithful are “consecrated to be . . . a holy priesthood.” (CCC 1546)
Response:  Thy kingdom come.

Verse: I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. (Rom 12:1)
Response:  Thy kingdom come.

Verse: Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. (1 Jn 4:7-8)
Response:  Thy kingdom come.

Prayer:

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
(pause)
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Proceed to the 7th Station….