Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Not my will, Lord.

Grace: To conform my will to Yours
Scriptures: Phil 2:4-8; Mt 28:16-20; Ex 19:5-9; Ps 119:17-24

"St. John of the Cross has said, 'God wants from us the least degree of obedience and submission, rather than all the works we desire to offer Him'. Why? Because obedience makes us surrender our own will to adhere to God's will...

One of the greatest obstacles to full conformity of our will to God's is our attachment to our own desires and inclinations. Obedience, because it asks us to be governed by the will of another, is the best way of accustoming ourselves to renounce our own will, of detaching us from it, and of making us cling to the divine will...This is the great value of obedience: to unite man's life with the will of God: to give man in every circumstance, the opportunity to govern himself, not according to his weak, fragile will, which is so subject to error, blindness and human limitations, but according to the will of God." --taken from Divine Intimacy, p. 355.

"The prince of disobedience is the Devil and you beat him by being obedient, not by your personality, or charism." Fr. Giancarlo Gramolazzo, quoted in The Rite, p. 73.
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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.