O holy Apostles, close friends of Jesus, honored by his special vocation, formation, mission, I contemplate you surrounding Jesus in the glory of the triumphant Church and in this world, searching for souls to save and sanctify. I contemplate you always surrounding Jesus in his state of sacrifice end sacrament.

Now the Lord, full of all kindness, has graciously called me in his fellowship with you, and he wanted me to be with him forever, in his work of universal sanctification. All the divine instructions that the divine master taught you, have come to me, with all the divine examples he showed throughout his life!

My soul has been filled with his words, but I do not savor them as they deserve, I do not know how to imitate the divine examples and I am still awkward, bare, weak and unsafe because of the burden of my incapability, faults and debts.

O holy Apostles, my soul has not yet received the Holy Spirit as you did on the day of Pentecost, in a such impetuous action to remain completely freed from every fault and debt and to be completely sanctified and kindled of zeal for the kingdom of God.

I have many reasons to fear of ending up like Judas, poor thing! I am afraid to betray my vocation, our Congregation and the divine master. So I could turn to my condemnation all the treasure of graces I received in the vocation, in the Congregation, in the divine person of Jesus- master. I turn to you, I entrust myself to you, and offer myself to you, o holy princes and apostles, that you may welcome me and make me stay close to you so that the enemy will never be able to part me from Jesus.

I want to come with you in all your apostolic journeys and I want to share with you all your 1abours, martyrdoms and death. But first of all I want you to obtain for me the predi1ection of Jesus, the formation of Jesus, and that blessing he gave you while ascending into heaven.

I beg you to welcome and retire me in your cenacle and to introduce me to the blessed virgin Mary your queen and mother, so that she may unite me to you in that absorption and prayer with which you prepared yourselves to receive that great gift promised by the Father and Jesus: the Holy Spirit.

Obtain me the Holy Spirit! I have already received him in baptism and confirmation, but you obtain him for me with all that fullness of graces and charismas, to work in me a fullness of virtues and heroisms, so that I may receive the spirit of my vocation, of my mission and Congregation, as you received the spirit of apostolate and martyrdom, the spirit of Jesus and his Church, the spirit of the divine unity and Trinity, the spirit of the incarnation, passion and death of Jesus, the spirit of the resurrection and ascension, holiness and power!

O holy Apostles, you see that I have received and welcomed the word of the Gospel and I want it to bear abundant fruit in me and in the sou1s. Send to me, then, from your heavenly Jerusalem, Peter, Paul and John that, praying for me, make me receive the fullness of gifts, fruits and beatitudes of the Holy Spirit.

Come all of you, o my holy Apostles, to pray for me in my home and church, school and workshop, because I want to turn everything in oratory and cenacle with the blessed virgin Mary!

Grant me the invisible missions of the Word and of the Holy Spirit, the presence of the holy Trinity in the soul through the Holy Spirit, so that he may teach me every instruction of Jesus, and transform me internally according to every example of Jesus. May he form me according to Jesus, so that it will be the Holy Spirit to live in me, as in Jesus.

Bring me unconditionally in the contemplation of the desert, in the action among the crowds, in the immolation at the Calvary, in the ascension of Jesus to the Father, in consigning him the kingdom conquered to his glory, love and will, with you, o holy Apostles of Jesus. Amen.

LET US PRAY:

O holy Apostles and martyrs of Jesus Christ, Sts. Philip and James, with you, through our Lord Jesus we glorify the Father in the Holy Spirit for your vocation, formation and mission. As you hastened to communicate to others some of the good things you learned from Jesus, and brought to him the future apostle Bartholomew and the Greeks, grant that we too may be good servants, propagators and cultivators of divine vocations. Amen.