God, you who love us, you sent Jesus not to judge the world but to show the fullness of your love. Take from our hearts all desire to label people with our own judgments and open our eyes to discern where it is you call us to love and to love again. And your light rises on our lives.

Living God, we would like to turn all our attention towards Jesus, the one who loves us and who is to come, and we want to keep awake so as to do that. Waiting for him in prayer can give us the strength to keep standing and to face up to the many challenges of our time. You, Christ, are totally faithful and totally new. We are thirsty for you and we want to rejoice in your coming. Maranatha, come, Jesus, come!

Jesus, friend of every human being, open our ears to hear how you call us today. And if, like Andrew and his brother Simon, we hear you say "Come and follow me", help us to trust that you will give us all we need to be able to answer you. You will transform us little by little, and nothing of our experiences will be lost, so that we may become able, by our lives, to transmit what we have understood of you.