Magnificat - Your Life is Everlasting

it was in my hands and my feet they drove it, as well. O my Jesus! Each time your flesh suffered a wound, I prayed it had been inflicted upon me, rather than upon you! I would have suffered so much less! And your final cry, it was heartrending! And the thrust of the lance right in the middle of your heart! They also pierced this heart, which loves you so! Lord, behold, I have found you wondrously alive! And you would stop me from throwing myself at your feet, and washing them, again and again, with all the tears in my body? Jesus Mary, O Mary, in Simon’s house, with the flood of your tears of penitence, and the perfume of your love, you washed my living body. At the foot of the Cross, with your tears of grief, you prepared my dead body for burial. And behold, now, with your tears of joy, you have just anointed my glorious body. Blessed are you, Mary, for your fair love: it has gained you the privilege of inaugurating with me the new day rising over the world. Blessed are you, Mary, my little sheep who was lost. How beautiful have you again become, through your faith and your love! Mary Magdalene O Lord, all those men only saw my body, my feminine body, as something to be taken or to be despised, as something to be possessed or to be stoned. Among men, you alone saw who I am, you alone knew who I was. You have made me beautiful in my own eyes. Jesus Yes, you are beautiful, O Mary: your heart has known to show more love than all the sins your existence could bear. Mary Magdalene Oh, Lord! Who will free me from this body of misery! This body subject to the ravages of time, this body made to suffer and to die. This body marked by my sins. 129