Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Discerning God's Will

The obligations of our state that fill each day enable the Christian to see clearly at each moment what God wants of him personally. Discerning and loving God's will in thosee duties will give us the strength we need to carry them out with perfection. We will find scope in them for exercising the human as well as the supernatural virtues.
God's will is also shown to us through those events that He in his omniscience permits, and which are always directed towards a greater good, if we remain more trustingly and more lovingly close to God our Father. There is a hidden providence behind each happening. Everything - even the things we don't understand, the very turn of events our wills starts off by resisting - is ordered and directed towards the good of all. omnia in bonum. In this life we will never fully understand the mysterious and baffling events that God allows to happen.

--from In Conversation with God, Vol 3, p.127
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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.