<p class="title_brown"><strong>Jesus is stripped of his garments</strong></p>
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<p class="normal_text"><strong>V. </strong>We adore you, O Christ and we bless you.<br />
<strong>R. </strong>Because&nbsp;by&nbsp;your Holy Cross, you&nbsp;have redeemed&nbsp;the world.<br />
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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>According to the Gospel of John (John 19, 23-24)</em></p>

<p class="quote">It was seamless, woven in one piece from the top to bottom.&nbsp; So they said to one another, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s not tear it, but instead let us cast lots to see who will get it.&rdquo; And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says:<br />
<em>They divided my garments among them,</em><br />
<em>and cast lots for my clothing</em></p>

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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>Meditation</em></p>

<p class="normal_text">Lord Jesus, your seamless vest is the image of your own integrity: true God and true men, you take in the greatness of your divinity all the fragility of humanity. In you, God shows himself radically close, curved not on himself but in the wounded and in need of cure men. That cure comes, frontally, by the new relation you naturally live and that you offer as a gift: Men can, now, truly be called son of God and have Him as his Father, being introduced in that communion of love that unites you &ndash; Father, Son and Holy Spirit &ndash; and in which he can participate. In its completeness, we are whole: we can finally live according to the original dream, as new and plain creatures, rescued by the fraction, not of the vests, but of the distributed-donated-Bread: You.<br />
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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>Prayer</em></p>

<p class="normal_text">Holy Father, United to the oblation of your Son Jesus I pray for those who break the fraternal bond for the rejection of the offered filiation. I present you this prayer by the maternal hands of Mary who in Fatima convokes to the construction of fraternity.<br />
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Our Father...</p>
