Monday, August 16, 2010

Can you give Me everything?

Matthew 19:16-22

"I think of the story of the rich young man who asked Jesus how he might gain eternal life. When Jesus told him to keep the commandments, he answered that he had done so from his youth. Jesus, looking at him with love, said, 'Sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and follow Me.' The young man looked at Jesus sadly and went away.

Jesus has shown that particular soul what its next step towards Him, towards perfect union with Him, was. What is mine? What is it that might cause me to walk away from Him sadly if He asked, either that I give or that I do? Whatever that might be, from giving him my life to forgiving someone, that is what lies between us. That is what I must overcome with His help in order to be in perfect union with Him.

O Lord, please grant me the grace to trust You with everything, to give You everything. May nothing be more important to me than You and Your will. Please grant me this grace that we may be together both here on earth and forever in Heaven." -- from The Light of Love, by Patricia Devlin, p. 300.
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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.