Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Eyes Fixed on the Lord

Matt 14:22-36
"The difficulties that surround us don't matter if we walk with faith and confidence toward Jesus, who is waiting for us. It doesn't matter if the waves are high and the wind strong, or that it's not natural for man to walk on water. If we look to Jesus, we can do anything; and looking at him is the virtue of piety. If through prayer and the sacraments we remain close to Jesus, we will remain on the right path. If our gaze wanders away from Jesus, we will sink; we will be incapable of even a single step, even on firm ground.

...At times, God asks for things which seem apparently impossible, but which become a reality when we act with faith, with our sight fixed on the Lord...

...Peter would have remained firm on the waters and would have reached the Lord if he had not separated his confident gaze from the Lord. All the tempests put together, those within the soul and those arising from outside, cannot shake us as long as we have firm recourse to prayer. To abandon prayer, to pray with little intimacy or sincerity, exposes us to sink into discouragement, pessimism and temptation." (from In Conversation With God, vol.4, pp 304-306)
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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.