Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Meeting Jesus in the Gospel

"Your prayer, says St. Augustine, is like a conversation with God. When you read, God speaks to you; when you pray, you speak to him. God speaks to us in many ways when we read the Gospels...
It does our soul a lot of good to use the Gospel frequently as the source of topics for our prayer. On occasions, perhaps, we can try to enter the scene as someone joining a little group gathered around Jesus, or stopping in a doorway to hear the Master teaching, or standing by the shore of the lake....
Every day, as we read the Gospel, Jesus passes beside us. Let us never fail to see and hear him, like those disciples who met him on the road to Emmaus. 'Stay with us, it is toward evening...' The prayer of Cleophas and his companion was effective.

How sad it would be if you and I were not able to 'detain' Jesus who is passing by. What a shame not to ask him to stay!"
--from In Conversation With God, vol. 4, pp. 529-530
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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.