Saturday, January 29, 2011

Interior Life

"God has promised that we will always have access to all the help we need...If He permits us to experience great temptations or setbacks, the Lord will give us still greater help to overcome them. Then those things that seem to retard our struggle for holiness, or even make succeeding in it seem impossible, will become the cause of spiritual progress...Lord, we say to him in our prayer, make us thirst for you even more intensely than the man dying in the desert thirsts for water!" (p. 139)

"There are various reasons that cause us to make scant progress in the interior life, and even to lose ground and give way to discouragement. However, these reasons can be reduced to just a few: carelessness, negligence in little things connected with service to God and friendship with Him; drawing back from the sacrifices He asks of us." (p.140)

--from In Conversation With God, Vol.3
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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.