- Ijournal entry 080816 # 32. August, Month of the Blessed Sacrament and also Month of The Immaculate Heart of Mary. Maxim by Blessed Antonio Rosmini. Quotes by St. John Vianney, St. Augustine, and St. Stephen of Hungary. Book: . “Love, peace and joy : A month of the Sacred Heart according to St. Gertrude", by André Prévot. "The Will of the Father", by Fr. Jean-Pierre De Caussade, S.J. Video presentation: "Living in the Presence of God", by Fr. Jacques Philippe
“Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don’t know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering". By St. Julian Eymard
(With the personal approval of his Holiness Pope Paul VI)
"Blessed Virgin Mary, our cherished heavenly Mother, you love so much God and us, your children, that you offer us to your divine Son Jesus on the Cross, to forgive us by our Heavenly Father and to obtain our salvation, so that all those who believe in Him do not perish but obtain the Eternal Life.
With a filial confidence, we pray to you, Virgin Mary, that with the Flame of Love of your Immaculate Heart, kindled by the Holy Spirit, you ignite in our languid hearts the fire of a perfect love for God and all the humans, so that together with you, with one heart, we love God and our neighbour.
Help us to transmit this holy Flame to all the people of goodwill, so that the Flame of Love extinguishes the fire of hatred everywhere on earth and that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, be the King and the centre of all the hearts in the Sacrament of His Love on the Throne of our altars. Amen."
MTA= For that to become a reality, have to say and mean it: Come Holy Spirit, come, come, come. Abiding in Jesus is also a must:
👼🏼 RTA = Blessed Antonio Rosmini's Take Away
"Christians ought never to walk in darkness but always in the light. This will happen if we are guided by the indwelling Spirit. The spirit of intelligence makes us calm in our attitudes and mature in our thinking. It causes us to put first the amendment of our own lives. The first priority in our day-to-day living is to perform our duties towards others faithfully and try to be good at our job, whatever it may be. We serve God best by doing well what God asks us to do.
Every day we need to spend time in prayer and reading, especially the Scriptures. And we should not neglect the necessary rest and recreation. By preference therefore we look to a life of regularity and balance. But we know from experience that God will inevitably call us away from home and routine to serve the needs of people. In this too the wise Spirit guides us. God summons us to action through external circumstances: either we see an obvious need, as the good Samaritan did; or we receive a specific request. If we fix our eyes on the Lord who summons us, our response will be prompt and full of love, even to the point of sacrifice.
In answering a call of charity, we should:
• respond to the first request first;
• only accept requests where we are able and free to take
them on;
• and prefer spiritual works to temporal. And whatever we start, we persevere with to the finish.
Any internal prompting of the Holy Spirit should be checked out with a prudent spiritual guide. The sure test of whether we are truly following what God desires of us will be peace of mind and heart". Blessed Antonio Rosmini.
🔵 "Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence". By St. Augustine
🔘 "Be merciful to all who are suffering violence, keeping always in your heart the example of the Lord who said, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice". By St. Stephen of Hungary
Like a good, master instructing a dearly loved child, I will let him lean on My Heart, will gently point out to him his faults, will kindly correct what he has done amiss, and supply what he has neglected. And if, as a heedless child, he pays no attention to some points, I will attend to them for him, and make up what he has passed over. The New Year's gift most conducive to My glory that I can bestow on these souls is the desire to please Me in all things, and confiding abandon ment to My Divine Heart. I will grant them, with the atonement for all their failures[…]”
One night, when St. Gertrude was suffering more than usual from fever, she felt anxious to know whether it would increase or get better. The Lord Jesus appeared to her, carrying health in His right hand and sickness in His left. He offered her both hands, that she might choose that which she preferred. But putting aside His two hands, she bent towards His loving Heart, hi which she knew the plenitude of every good resided, and answered: " Lord, I choose nothing; I desire, only the good pleasure of Thy Heart." Then Jesus, causing a fountain, as it were, of grace to spring from His Heart, made it flow into that of Gertrude, saying: "Since thou renouncest thy own will to abandon it entirely unto Mine, I pour into thee all the sweetness and all the joy of My Divine Heart”
One day, when St. Gertrude felt quite cast down and discouraged at prayer, Our Lord mercifully inspired her with great confidence in His Divine Heart, and, inviting her to present herself before Him, like Esther before Assueras, He thus addressed her: " What dost thou command, My sovereign ?" The Saint answered : "I ask, 0 Lord, that Thy most amiable Will may he fully accomplished in me." Then Jesus, naming to her one after another the persons who had recommended themselves to her prayers, said : "What dost thou ask for this soul and for this, and for that other, who claim more especially thy prayers?" Gertrude answered : "I only ask, 0 Lord, that Thy Will may be perfectly accomplished in them. All my desire and my delight is to see Thee fully satisfied in me and in all Thy creatures.'' "My Heart" replied Jesus, " is so touched with that confiding abandonment of thy heart to My holy Will, that it will itself supply for whatever may have hitherto been wanting in thy life in this respect, and will henceforth love thee as if thy whole life had been perfectly conformed to My good pleasure.”
“PRACTICAL CONCLUSION. —Confiding abandonment—to give ourselves to the Heart of Jesus through love, with all confidence, and without fear or reserve.”
YouTube video link:
https://youtu.be/7bOpjdkt4JM