This came from the Magnificat several years ago and I have always liked it. If you are looking for a good daily devotional that follows the liturgy of the Church, I highly recommend the Magnificat. It would also make a great Christmas present. You can request a sample here.
Place before the Lord all those areas of your life in which change is necessary, and ask for the Holy Spirit’s gift of courage.
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body. ~ Philippians 3:20-21
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And He said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ~ Matthew 18:2-3
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ~ 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18
He also says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end." ~ Hebrews 1:10-12
For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him. ~ Matthew 21:32
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing and perfect will. ~ Romans 12:2
LITANY OF ABANDONMENT
From the temptation to give up,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to disappointment,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to fear and dread,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to cynicism,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to skepticism,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to distrust,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to apathy,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to obstinacy,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to rationalizing,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to despondency and despair,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to nay-saying,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to gloominess,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to doubt,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to being overly-critical,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to indifference,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to nihilism,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to impatience,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to be contrary,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to stubbornness,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to discouragement,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to pessimism,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to resignation,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to remain stuck in my ways,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to dejection,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to make excuses,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to hopelessness,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to defeatism,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to cowardice,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to antagonism,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to rigidity,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to willfulness,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to diffidence,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to anxiety,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to lose heart,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to have an unyielding spirit,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to presumption,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to rash judging,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to obduracy,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to negativity,
Lord, deliver me.
From the temptation to fatalism,
Lord, deliver me.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking as Jesus did this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that he will make all things right if I surrender to his will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with him forever in the next.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Closing Prayer ~ For Ordering a Life Wisely
O merciful God, grant that I may desire ardently, search prudently, recognize truly, and bring to perfect completion whatever is pleasing to You for the praise and glory of Your name. Put my life in good order, O my God. Grant that I may know what You require me to do. Bestow upon me the power to accomplish Your will, as is necessary and fitting for the salvation of my soul. Grant to me, O Lord my God, that I may not falter in times of prosperity or adversity, so that I may not be exalted in the former nor dejected in the latter. May I not rejoice in anything unless it leads me to You; may I not be saddened by anything unless it turns me from You. May I desire to please no one, nor fear to displease anyone, but You. May all transitory things, O Lord, be worthless to me and may all things eternal be ever cherished by me. May any joy without You be burdensome for me and may I not desire anything else besides You. May all work, O Lord, delight me when done for Your sake and may all repose not centered in You be ever wearisome for me. Grant unto me, my God, that I may direct my heart to You and that in my failures I may ever feel remorse for my sins and never lose the resolve to change. O Lord my God, make me submissive without protest, poor without discouragement, chaste without regret, patient without complaint, humble without posturing, cheerful without frivolity, mature without gloom, and quick-witted without flippancy, O Lord my God, let me fear You without losing hope, be truthful without guile, do good works without presumption, rebuke my neighbor without haughtiness, and – without hypocrisy – strengthen him by word and example. Give to me, O Lord God, a watchful heart, which no capricious thought can lure away from You. Give to me a noble heart, which no unworthy desire can debase. Give to me a resolute heart, which no evil intention can divert. Give to me a stalwart heart, which no tribulation can overcome. Give to me a temperate heart, which no violent passion can enslave. Give to me, O Lord my God, understanding of You, diligence in seeking You, wisdom in finding You, discourse ever pleasing to You, perseverance in waiting for You, and confidence in finally embracing You. Grant that with Your hardships I may be burdened in reparation here, that Your benefits I may use in gratitude upon the way, that in Your joys I may delight by glorifying You in the kingdom of heaven. You who live and reign, God, world without end. Amen.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Blessings for Halloween Evening
Compiled by Father Peter John Cameron, o.p. from the Magnificat October 2006
“It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ, from whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace, and the life of the People of God itself.” (CCC 957)
We do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of [God’s] will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. ~ Colossians 1:9-12
This litany is a meditation on what some of the saints have spoken or written. As we listen to these saints, we pray for a deeper personal participation in their sanctity. This litany represents only a small sampling of the vast communion of saints (the selection is limited due to space constraints). Feel free to add your favorites to it. One option is to sing the litany and its response.
Response: (Saint’s name), pray for us.
Holy Mary Mother of God “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word”
Saint Gabriel the Archangel “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.”
Saint Joseph [pause in reverent silence]
Saint John the Baptist “Jesus must increase; I must decrease”
Saint Peter “Lord, you know that I love you.”
Saint Paul “We had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might trust not in ourselves but in God who raises the dead?”
Saint Mary Magdalene “I have seen the Lord!”
Saint Ignatius of Antioch “There is water living and speaking in me, saying from within me, ‘Come to the Father?’”
Saint Justin Martyr “The greatest grace God can give someone is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers — and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved”
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons “The glory of God is man fully alive?”
Saint Agatha “Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you have watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.”
Saint Cyprian “Our union with Christ unifies affections and wills.”
Saint Athanasius “It is the Father’s glory that man, made and then lost, should be found again; and, when done to death, that he should be made alive, and should become God’s temple”
Saint Ephrem of Syrian “0 Jesus, in that hour when darkness like a cloak shall be spread over all things, may your grace shine on us in place of the earthly sun.”
Saint Cecilia “To die for Christ is not to sacrifice one’s youth, but to renew it. Jesus Christ returns a hundredfold for all offered him, and adds to it eternal life.”
Saint Basil “Through the Holy Spirit paradise is restored. We can address God as our Father with confidence; we can share in the grace of Christ.”
Saint Gregory Nazianzen “Each of us can say to the tempter, ‘Unlike you, I have not yet become an outcast from heaven through my pride. By my baptism I have become one with him. It is you that should fall prostrate before me.’”
Saint Gregory of Nyssa “Ideas create idols; only wonder leads to knowing.”
Saint Ambrose “Every soul who has believed both conceives and generates the Word of God and recognizes his works. Let the soul of Mary be in each one of you to magnify the Lord.”
Saint John Chrysostom “Jesus Christ gave you all; he left nothing for himself.”
Saint Augustine “We have been promised something we do not yet possess. It is good for us to persevere in longing until we receive what was promised, and yearning is over.”
Saint Peter Chrysologus “Peace is the plenitude that fulfills our desires. As Christ left the world, he wished to leave the gift he wanted to find when he returned.”
Saint Leo the Great “Let us be raised to the one who made the dust of our lowliness into the body of his glory.”
Saint Patrick “I arise today through the strength of Christ with his baptism, through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his Resurrection with his Ascension.”
Saint Benedict “What is more delightful than this voice of the Lord calling to us? See how the Lord in his love shows us the way of life.”
Saint Columba “Loving Savior, inspire in us the depth of love that is fitting for you to receive as God.”
Saint Gregory the Great “We have been truly set free from subjection to sin because we are united to him who is truly free”
Saint Maximos the Confessor “God made us so that we might become partakers of the divine nature and sharers in his eternity, and so that we might come to be like him through deification by grace.”
Saint Bede the Venerable “We should rejoice that the Lord deigns to visit our hearts, and that he deigns to illumine this Passover of our good actions by his benevolent presence.”
Saint Anselm “God who made all things made himself of Mary, and thus he refashioned everything he had made.”
Saint Bernard “In the measure that grace’s kingdom is extended, sin’s power is weakened.”
Saint Dominic “I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you more effectively than during my life.”
Saint Francis of Assisi “May I feel in my heart, as far as possible, that abundance of love with which you, Son of God, were inflamed.”
Saint Anthony of Padua “Let us pray that the Lord Jesus Christ pour his grace into us by means of which we ask for and receive the fullness of true joy.”
Saint Claire “Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas “The life of man consists in the love that principally sustains him and in which he finds his greatest satisfaction.”
Saint Gertrude the Great ”Once again I give you thanks for your merciful love, kindest Lord, for having found another way of arousing me from my inertia.”
Saint Bonaventure “God created all things not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it.”
Saint Catherine of Siena “When we love something we don’t care what sort of abuse or injury or pain we might have to endure to get it; we are concerned only with satisfying our desire for the thing we love.”
Saint Joan of Arc “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.”
Saint Bernardine of Siena “If we but recollect the name of Jesus, it is to fight with confidence — for this name subjects all the fury of our enemies to us.”
Saint Catherine of Genoa “God lets the soul share his goodness so that it becomes one with him. The nearer the soul comes to him, the more it partakes of what is his”
Saint Thomas More “The brothers of the patriarch Joseph could never have done him so much good with their love and favor as they did him with their malice and hatred.”
Saint Angela of Merici “Strengthen, 0 Lord, my senses and my affections that they may not stray into any betrayal of trust.”
Saint Francis Xavier “God our Lord knows the intentions which he in his mercy has wished to place in us, and the great hope and confidence which he in his goodness has wished that we should have in him.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola “As long as obedience is flourishing, all the other virtues will be seen to flourish and to bear fruit.”
Saint Teresa of Avila “Be joyful for there is someone who loves your God as he deserves, who knows him as her only Son.”
Saint Charles Borromeo “The candle that gives light to others must itself be consumed. Thus we also have to act. We ourselves are consumed to give a good example to others.”
Saint Catherine De’ Ricci “You have been reborn with him through a holy desire to live a new life, looking at yourselves as reflected in his life.”
Saint John of the Cross “You considered that one hair fluttering at my neck; You gazed at it upon my neck And it captivated You.”
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga “As God is above all created things, honors, possessions, so should our internal esteem of his Divine Majesty surpass our esteem or idea of anything whatever.”
Saint Philip Neri “My Jesus, if you want me, cut the fetters that keep me from you.”
Saint Robert Southwell “Jesus, possess my mind with your presence and ravish it with your love, that my delight may be to be embraced in the arms of your protection.”
Saint Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi “Who doesn’t know what God is, should apply to Mary. Who doesn’t find mercy in God, should apply to Mary. Who doesn’t have conformity of will, should apply to Mary”
Saint Francis de Sales “We must fight our battle between fear and hope in the knowledge that hope is always the stronger because he who comes to our help is almighty.”
Saint Jane Frances de Chantall “Oh, how happy is the soul that freely lets herself be molded to the liking of this divine Savior!”
Saint Isaac Jogues “My hope is in God, who needs not us to accomplish his designs. We must endeavor to be faithful to him.”
Saint Peter Claver “Man’s salvation and perfection consists in doing the will of God, which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”
Saint Vincent de Paul “But for divine grace I would be in temper hard and repellant, rough and crabbed.”
Saint John Eudes “With his own hand God the Father has impressed on Mary’s heart a perfect semblance of the divine qualities of his love.”
Saint Claude de la Colombiere “My Jesus, let me live in your heart and pour all my bitterness into it where it will be utterly consumed.”
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque “All my pleasure in this land of exile is that of having every kind of suffering found on the cross, deprived of every other consolation except that of the Sacred Heart.”
Saint Louis de Montfort “In Mary alone, by the grace of Jesus Christ, man is made godlike as far as human nature is capable of it.”
Saint Paul of the Cross “The soul whom God wants to draw to deepest union with him by means of holy prayer must pass through the way of suffering during prayer.”
Saint Alphonsus Liguori “We must love God in the way that pleases him, and just not in a way that suits ourselves. God wishes people to empty themselves of everything and to be filled with his divine love.”
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton “O Jesus, sure joy of my soul, give me but a true love of you. Let me seek you as my only good.”
Saint John Vianney “The soul can feed only on God; only God can suffice it; only God can fill it; only God can satiate its hunger. Its God is absolutely necessary to it.”
Saint John Neumann “Though God hates sin more than any other thing, he loves us poor miserable sinners. He ardently desires the welfare of our souls as if his own happiness depended on it.”
Saint Peter Julian Eymard “Abide in the home of the divine and fatherly goodness of God like his child who knows nothing, does nothing, makes a mess of everything, but nevertheless lives in his goodness.”
Saint John Bosco “What tenderness there is in Jesus’ love for man! In his infinite goodness, he established, with each of us, bonds of sublime love! His love has no limits.”
Saint Therese of Lisieux “You alone, 0 Jesus, could satisfy a soul that needed to love even to the infinite.”
Saint Bernadette Soubirous “O Mary, Mother of Sorrows, I am the child of your sorrows. My tender Mother, here is your child, who can do no more. Have pity on me.”
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini “Stretch every fiber of my being, dear Lord, that I may more easily fly towards you. May your Spirit which once breathed over the chaos of the earth give life to all the powers of my soul.”
Saint Maximilian Kolbe “Shall the urge for complete and total happiness, inherent to human nature, be the only need to remain unfulfilled and unsatisfied? No, even this longing can be fulfilled by the infinite and eternal God.”
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross “Holy realism has a certain affinity with the realism of the child who receives and responds to impressions with unimpaired vigor and vitality, and with uninhibited simplicity.”
Saint Katharine Drexel “May your faith be increased so as to realize the fact that you are never alone, wheresoever you may be, that the great God is with you, in you.”
Saint Faustina “Jesus, I trust in you.”
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina “If the soul longs for nothing else than to love its God, then don’t worry and be quite sure that this soul possesses everything, that it possesses God himself.”
“It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ, from whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace, and the life of the People of God itself.” (CCC 957)
We do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of [God’s] will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. ~ Colossians 1:9-12
This litany is a meditation on what some of the saints have spoken or written. As we listen to these saints, we pray for a deeper personal participation in their sanctity. This litany represents only a small sampling of the vast communion of saints (the selection is limited due to space constraints). Feel free to add your favorites to it. One option is to sing the litany and its response.
Response: (Saint’s name), pray for us.
Holy Mary Mother of God “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word”
Saint Gabriel the Archangel “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.”
Saint Joseph [pause in reverent silence]
Saint John the Baptist “Jesus must increase; I must decrease”
Saint Peter “Lord, you know that I love you.”
Saint Paul “We had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might trust not in ourselves but in God who raises the dead?”
Saint Mary Magdalene “I have seen the Lord!”
Saint Ignatius of Antioch “There is water living and speaking in me, saying from within me, ‘Come to the Father?’”
Saint Justin Martyr “The greatest grace God can give someone is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers — and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved”
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons “The glory of God is man fully alive?”
Saint Agatha “Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you have watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.”
Saint Cyprian “Our union with Christ unifies affections and wills.”
Saint Athanasius “It is the Father’s glory that man, made and then lost, should be found again; and, when done to death, that he should be made alive, and should become God’s temple”
Saint Ephrem of Syrian “0 Jesus, in that hour when darkness like a cloak shall be spread over all things, may your grace shine on us in place of the earthly sun.”
Saint Cecilia “To die for Christ is not to sacrifice one’s youth, but to renew it. Jesus Christ returns a hundredfold for all offered him, and adds to it eternal life.”
Saint Basil “Through the Holy Spirit paradise is restored. We can address God as our Father with confidence; we can share in the grace of Christ.”
Saint Gregory Nazianzen “Each of us can say to the tempter, ‘Unlike you, I have not yet become an outcast from heaven through my pride. By my baptism I have become one with him. It is you that should fall prostrate before me.’”
Saint Gregory of Nyssa “Ideas create idols; only wonder leads to knowing.”
Saint Ambrose “Every soul who has believed both conceives and generates the Word of God and recognizes his works. Let the soul of Mary be in each one of you to magnify the Lord.”
Saint John Chrysostom “Jesus Christ gave you all; he left nothing for himself.”
Saint Augustine “We have been promised something we do not yet possess. It is good for us to persevere in longing until we receive what was promised, and yearning is over.”
Saint Peter Chrysologus “Peace is the plenitude that fulfills our desires. As Christ left the world, he wished to leave the gift he wanted to find when he returned.”
Saint Leo the Great “Let us be raised to the one who made the dust of our lowliness into the body of his glory.”
Saint Patrick “I arise today through the strength of Christ with his baptism, through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his Resurrection with his Ascension.”
Saint Benedict “What is more delightful than this voice of the Lord calling to us? See how the Lord in his love shows us the way of life.”
Saint Columba “Loving Savior, inspire in us the depth of love that is fitting for you to receive as God.”
Saint Gregory the Great “We have been truly set free from subjection to sin because we are united to him who is truly free”
Saint Maximos the Confessor “God made us so that we might become partakers of the divine nature and sharers in his eternity, and so that we might come to be like him through deification by grace.”
Saint Bede the Venerable “We should rejoice that the Lord deigns to visit our hearts, and that he deigns to illumine this Passover of our good actions by his benevolent presence.”
Saint Anselm “God who made all things made himself of Mary, and thus he refashioned everything he had made.”
Saint Bernard “In the measure that grace’s kingdom is extended, sin’s power is weakened.”
Saint Dominic “I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you more effectively than during my life.”
Saint Francis of Assisi “May I feel in my heart, as far as possible, that abundance of love with which you, Son of God, were inflamed.”
Saint Anthony of Padua “Let us pray that the Lord Jesus Christ pour his grace into us by means of which we ask for and receive the fullness of true joy.”
Saint Claire “Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas “The life of man consists in the love that principally sustains him and in which he finds his greatest satisfaction.”
Saint Gertrude the Great ”Once again I give you thanks for your merciful love, kindest Lord, for having found another way of arousing me from my inertia.”
Saint Bonaventure “God created all things not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it.”
Saint Catherine of Siena “When we love something we don’t care what sort of abuse or injury or pain we might have to endure to get it; we are concerned only with satisfying our desire for the thing we love.”
Saint Joan of Arc “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.”
Saint Bernardine of Siena “If we but recollect the name of Jesus, it is to fight with confidence — for this name subjects all the fury of our enemies to us.”
Saint Catherine of Genoa “God lets the soul share his goodness so that it becomes one with him. The nearer the soul comes to him, the more it partakes of what is his”
Saint Thomas More “The brothers of the patriarch Joseph could never have done him so much good with their love and favor as they did him with their malice and hatred.”
Saint Angela of Merici “Strengthen, 0 Lord, my senses and my affections that they may not stray into any betrayal of trust.”
Saint Francis Xavier “God our Lord knows the intentions which he in his mercy has wished to place in us, and the great hope and confidence which he in his goodness has wished that we should have in him.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola “As long as obedience is flourishing, all the other virtues will be seen to flourish and to bear fruit.”
Saint Teresa of Avila “Be joyful for there is someone who loves your God as he deserves, who knows him as her only Son.”
Saint Charles Borromeo “The candle that gives light to others must itself be consumed. Thus we also have to act. We ourselves are consumed to give a good example to others.”
Saint Catherine De’ Ricci “You have been reborn with him through a holy desire to live a new life, looking at yourselves as reflected in his life.”
Saint John of the Cross “You considered that one hair fluttering at my neck; You gazed at it upon my neck And it captivated You.”
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga “As God is above all created things, honors, possessions, so should our internal esteem of his Divine Majesty surpass our esteem or idea of anything whatever.”
Saint Philip Neri “My Jesus, if you want me, cut the fetters that keep me from you.”
Saint Robert Southwell “Jesus, possess my mind with your presence and ravish it with your love, that my delight may be to be embraced in the arms of your protection.”
Saint Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi “Who doesn’t know what God is, should apply to Mary. Who doesn’t find mercy in God, should apply to Mary. Who doesn’t have conformity of will, should apply to Mary”
Saint Francis de Sales “We must fight our battle between fear and hope in the knowledge that hope is always the stronger because he who comes to our help is almighty.”
Saint Jane Frances de Chantall “Oh, how happy is the soul that freely lets herself be molded to the liking of this divine Savior!”
Saint Isaac Jogues “My hope is in God, who needs not us to accomplish his designs. We must endeavor to be faithful to him.”
Saint Peter Claver “Man’s salvation and perfection consists in doing the will of God, which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”
Saint Vincent de Paul “But for divine grace I would be in temper hard and repellant, rough and crabbed.”
Saint John Eudes “With his own hand God the Father has impressed on Mary’s heart a perfect semblance of the divine qualities of his love.”
Saint Claude de la Colombiere “My Jesus, let me live in your heart and pour all my bitterness into it where it will be utterly consumed.”
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque “All my pleasure in this land of exile is that of having every kind of suffering found on the cross, deprived of every other consolation except that of the Sacred Heart.”
Saint Louis de Montfort “In Mary alone, by the grace of Jesus Christ, man is made godlike as far as human nature is capable of it.”
Saint Paul of the Cross “The soul whom God wants to draw to deepest union with him by means of holy prayer must pass through the way of suffering during prayer.”
Saint Alphonsus Liguori “We must love God in the way that pleases him, and just not in a way that suits ourselves. God wishes people to empty themselves of everything and to be filled with his divine love.”
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton “O Jesus, sure joy of my soul, give me but a true love of you. Let me seek you as my only good.”
Saint John Vianney “The soul can feed only on God; only God can suffice it; only God can fill it; only God can satiate its hunger. Its God is absolutely necessary to it.”
Saint John Neumann “Though God hates sin more than any other thing, he loves us poor miserable sinners. He ardently desires the welfare of our souls as if his own happiness depended on it.”
Saint Peter Julian Eymard “Abide in the home of the divine and fatherly goodness of God like his child who knows nothing, does nothing, makes a mess of everything, but nevertheless lives in his goodness.”
Saint John Bosco “What tenderness there is in Jesus’ love for man! In his infinite goodness, he established, with each of us, bonds of sublime love! His love has no limits.”
Saint Therese of Lisieux “You alone, 0 Jesus, could satisfy a soul that needed to love even to the infinite.”
Saint Bernadette Soubirous “O Mary, Mother of Sorrows, I am the child of your sorrows. My tender Mother, here is your child, who can do no more. Have pity on me.”
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini “Stretch every fiber of my being, dear Lord, that I may more easily fly towards you. May your Spirit which once breathed over the chaos of the earth give life to all the powers of my soul.”
Saint Maximilian Kolbe “Shall the urge for complete and total happiness, inherent to human nature, be the only need to remain unfulfilled and unsatisfied? No, even this longing can be fulfilled by the infinite and eternal God.”
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross “Holy realism has a certain affinity with the realism of the child who receives and responds to impressions with unimpaired vigor and vitality, and with uninhibited simplicity.”
Saint Katharine Drexel “May your faith be increased so as to realize the fact that you are never alone, wheresoever you may be, that the great God is with you, in you.”
Saint Faustina “Jesus, I trust in you.”
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina “If the soul longs for nothing else than to love its God, then don’t worry and be quite sure that this soul possesses everything, that it possesses God himself.”
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Quotes from Magnificat
Father in heaven, our hearts desire the warmth of your love and our minds are searching for the light of your Word. Increase our longing for Christ our Savior and give us the strength to grow in love, that the dawn of his coming may find us rejoicing in his presence and welcoming the light of his truth. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord. Amen. ~ Magnificat 12-3-6
O God of glory, you have sent your only Son into our midst to bear us in joy into your presence. Waken those whose faith slumbers; stir up those whose love has waned into indifference; rouse to fullness of life those who have abandoned their journey toward you amid the hardships they have met along the way. ~ Magnificat 12-10-6
God of power and mercy, open our hearts in welcome. Remove the things that hinder us from receiving Christ with joy, so that we may share his wisdom and become one with him when he comes in glory, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. ~ Magnificat 12-10-6
Lord Jesus Christ, you are the light in which we place our hope. Break open minds clouded by confusion, hearts darkened by self-seeking, spirits dimmed by deadening habits, and set your people free to welcome your coming with joy. ~ Magnificat 12-23-6
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O God of glory, you have sent your only Son into our midst to bear us in joy into your presence. Waken those whose faith slumbers; stir up those whose love has waned into indifference; rouse to fullness of life those who have abandoned their journey toward you amid the hardships they have met along the way. ~ Magnificat 12-10-6
God of power and mercy, open our hearts in welcome. Remove the things that hinder us from receiving Christ with joy, so that we may share his wisdom and become one with him when he comes in glory, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. ~ Magnificat 12-10-6
Lord Jesus Christ, you are the light in which we place our hope. Break open minds clouded by confusion, hearts darkened by self-seeking, spirits dimmed by deadening habits, and set your people free to welcome your coming with joy. ~ Magnificat 12-23-6
You can subscribe to the Magnificat here.
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