Sunday, August 28, 2011

Simple Trust

“Sooner or later, each of us has to be confronted with the terrifying truth…that we have nothing, nothing whatever, to go on or to rely on except Jesus.  In all other areas of life our own efforts and activity are crucial and we have to be thoroughly adult;  but where we stand vis-à-vis God, there we are only children.  No other state is appropriate or possible.  Our fears, complexities, scruples, complacency and conceit come from not fixing our eyes on him who is our way, our truth, and our life…So we look around, in the name of prayer, for ways of diverting ourselves from simple, trusting exposure to Love.  ‘O foolish and slow to believe’ that God is who God is!

--from a meditation by Sr. Ruth Burrows, OCD, in Magnificat, August 2011 p. 364

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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.