Please Enlighten Us In This Hour

Father!
We know that at this time
it will not do
unless our minds and bodies
resemble you completely.

So please embrace us
to your eternal bosom
and in order to realize your will,
please let us inherit your heart
which has loved billions of people.

And please allow us
to realize that this is the time
when we must appear
with hearts like yours.

This land is the land
where you toiled and shed blood,
and because we know that
this land is the land
where humankind went
the difficult path of the cross,

the land where the people of the world
went the course of Golgotha,

Father,
please lead us to come
to realize by ourselves
what kind of situation
we are facing today.

If we are going to acknowledge
that we are following
the footsteps of Jesus'
thirty-year life of suffering,

then please lead us
to clearly understand
what kind of environment
we are living in
and what we must hope
for and desire.

At this time
when the remaining battle
of the cross
has come right before our eyes,

as individuals we know
that we must have hearts
that are aware
that they can push aside
all these sufferings and enmities,

so, Heaven,
please have pity on us at this time.

Please lead us
to feel our unworthiness,
and guide us
to feel our inadequacy by ourselves,

and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow this time
to become a time
when we can shed tears of anguish
in front of you, Father,
lamenting our own incompleteness.

Asking you to take dominion
over all things,
we have humbly prayed
in the name of the Lord. Amen.