Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Meeting with Christ

"Lent is the most opportune time for considering how we receive the sacrament of Penance...It is a meeting with Christ, who makes himself present in the priest. It is a meeting which is always unique and always different...He heals our wounds, He cleanses us and strengthens us...

"Every contrite Confession is a drawing near to the holiness of God, a rediscovery of one's true identity, which has been upset and disturbed by sin, a liberation in the very depth of one's self and thus a regaining of lost joy, the joy of being saved, which the majority of people in our time are no longer capable of experiencing.  It is up to us to help others to e aware of, to experience, a sense of loss of God, so that they may draw close it him, for He is waiting for them."
--from In Conversation With Christ, vol. 2, pp. 43-44.
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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.