* O desired of all nations, come back to us again… Come among us and dwell in our midst…
* O our Lord Jesus, come save us from ourselves… O you who were born for our salvation…
*Come…because we have contented ourselves only with boasting about your salvation…And we were likened to us by the children of Israel who were proud of being Abraham’s children…and did not do one of his deeds…
* Come and light up our understandings… because we are only celebrating memories of you… with our tongues, we congratulate each other on your wondrous birth… and your glorious Epiphany… and your joyous pains and resurrection… and your ascension and the descent of your Holy Spirit…
* You came for the salvation and salvation of everyone in every generation… From all my depths I beg you to return again… and to come to the depths of humanity that your hands created…
* I beg you that congratulating our mouths on the anniversary of your birth replace it with the joy of your presence and the residence of your comfort in our hearts…
* Come… Come to our depths, so that we may know the sweetness of your friendship… and taste your beauty…
* Receive our souls into your hands… Grant them the grace of a new birth…
* Water it and water it from your love… Feed it and satisfy it with your commandments…
* Grow it… Enlarge it so that it increases in every good deed…
* Stretch out your hand and remove from us and from our mouths the perishing food… because we ate a lot of it, and we eat and are not satisfied… and we drank a lot of the perishable drink, and we drink and we don’t get enough…
* We have no medicine, no care, and no care except in you and with you and with you…
* We are hungry and thirsty for you, the bread of life and the source of it…
* You are the light that came to the world… the light that illuminates the inhabited world… send a ray of your light and enlighten our minds… so that our thoughts are filled with you… and our minds are occupied with your words… and we look at your actions… and our souls yearn for your promises with them…
* You could not bear when you saw our humiliation and our bitter servitude to sin…
* You did not shut up when you looked at everyone and they were deviated and corrupted…
* You did not close your eyes to those who quickly strayed from the way I commanded them…
* For their sake, you traversed the heavens of the heavens… For them and for us, you were incarnate, became human, and came to us on earth… For their sake and for our sake, you became a way and a friend to save what was lost…
* You ripped open the heavens for us… You rolled up your arm, you stretched out your right hand, and you showed your strength among the peoples…
* With your incarnation, you extended your arm… and made it always outstretched, to ascend us from the depths to the light… and to give us life from death… and to grant us freedom from slavery…
*Come back…for we have departed from the light and descended to the earthly…into the depths of darkness…
* Come quickly again and rescue us because death is about to swallow our lives…
* Come liberate us, because slavery has restricted our freedom… Come back to us, so that our souls may live…
* The eyes of our hearts beseech you… With her tears she calls you… With her eyes she cries out to you… With her fingers she clings to you..
* Will you extend your outstretched hand to it day and night for humanity?! … Do you attract her towards you?! …
* Attract her … acquire her for you … because she does not want anyone else but you …
* Come, O King of Peace… Our hearts beg for you…
* Teach us how to walk with you… Train us to become yours.
Written by H.E. Metropolitan Kyrolos, Metropolitan of Milan
