Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Called to holiness

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48
Grace: To desire sanctity

"All Sacred Scripture is a calling to holiness, to the fullness of charity, but Jesus makes it quite explicit in the Gospel of today's Mass: You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. And Christ is not addressing his words to the Apostles or to just a few of his followers, but to everyone...Today, we implore this of God: Lord, grant us a lively desire for sanctity that we may be exemplary in our duty of loving you more each day. Help us to spread your doctrine everywhere...

Our Lord is not happy with a lukewarm life and a half-hearted dedication...And so the Master purifies his own, permitting them to experience trials and contradictions...All the pain God allows, whether it be of body or of mind, serves to purify the soul so that it may yield more fruit. It is the mystery of suffering that we have to see it always as a grace from Heaven." -- from In Conversation With God, vol. 3 pp.596-598
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Novena to the Holy Spirit

"Wait for the promise of the Father...you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you." Acts 1:5,6

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.