Ijournal entry 112315 #47. November, Month of The Holy Souls. GO SAINTS! Quotes from St. Paul of the Cross, Pope St. Callistus, St.John XXIII, and Kevin Tierney. Article: "Praise and Thanksgiving, Especially for the Eucharist, Increase the Gifts and Discernment of Inspirations of the Holy Spirit"' by Anthony Mullen. Sermon by St. Augustine: "Let us sing to the Lord a song of love".
Youtube video: "Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving", by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Youtube video: "Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving", by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
November, Month of Holy Souls
"To assist the souls in Purgatory is to perform the most excellent of the works of mercy; or rather, it is to practice in a most sublime manner all the works of mercy together. It is to visit the sick; it is to give drink to those who thirst for the vision of God; it is to feed the hungry, to ransom prisoners, to clothe the naked, to procure for poor exiles the hospitality of the Heavenly Jerusalem; it is to comfort the afflicted, to instruct the ignorant - in short, to practice all works of mercy in one". By St. Francis de Sales
"To assist the souls in Purgatory is to perform the most excellent of the works of mercy; or rather, it is to practice in a most sublime manner all the works of mercy together. It is to visit the sick; it is to give drink to those who thirst for the vision of God; it is to feed the hungry, to ransom prisoners, to clothe the naked, to procure for poor exiles the hospitality of the Heavenly Jerusalem; it is to comfort the afflicted, to instruct the ignorant - in short, to practice all works of mercy in one". By St. Francis de Sales
🏉Hey, hey, hey, Thank God not a tear to shed cause we Who Dat fans don't have a reason to cry
🏉This week is our Bye
🏉This week is our Bye
🔴 "When we go into the garden, it is not to gather the leaves; but the fruits; so in the Sacred Garden of prayer we ought not to amuse ourselves with the leaves of sentiment and sensible consolation, but rather reap the fruits of the virtues of Jesus" By St. Paul of the Cross
⚪️ "He who does not live rightly, does not believe rightly. He means nothing evil who is faithful. If anyone is faithful (a believer), let him see to it that he make no false allegations, nor lay a snare for any man. The faithful man acts always in faith; and the unfaithful man plots cunningly, and strives to work the ruin of those who are faithful and who live in piety and righteousness, because like seeks like" By Pope Saint Callistus
🔵 "My obligation to aim at sanctification at all costs must beever present in my mind, but it must be a serene and tranquilpreoccupation, not wearisome and overmastering. I must re-member it at every moment, from when I first open my eyes tothe morning light till I close them in sleep at night. So, no slip-ping back into old ways and customs. Serenity and peace, butperseverance and determination. A total distrust and poor opin-ion of myself, accompanied by uninterrupted and loving unionwith God. This is my task, this my labor. O good Jesus, help me. “Mary, show that you are my Mother.” By St.John XXIII
⚫️ The liturgical year draws to a close, the priest will be in purple, the Gloria will be gone, and we will be into the advent season, where we prepare our hearts, and the hearts of the Church, for the birth of Our Lord. While the liturgy will never “end” so long as we are on this earth, the Church wants us to ponder several things at the conclusion of this season of Pentecost. In today’s challenging environment, it would do us well to reflect upon them". By Kevin Tierney
⚪️ "He who does not live rightly, does not believe rightly. He means nothing evil who is faithful. If anyone is faithful (a believer), let him see to it that he make no false allegations, nor lay a snare for any man. The faithful man acts always in faith; and the unfaithful man plots cunningly, and strives to work the ruin of those who are faithful and who live in piety and righteousness, because like seeks like" By Pope Saint Callistus
🔵 "My obligation to aim at sanctification at all costs must beever present in my mind, but it must be a serene and tranquilpreoccupation, not wearisome and overmastering. I must re-member it at every moment, from when I first open my eyes tothe morning light till I close them in sleep at night. So, no slip-ping back into old ways and customs. Serenity and peace, butperseverance and determination. A total distrust and poor opin-ion of myself, accompanied by uninterrupted and loving unionwith God. This is my task, this my labor. O good Jesus, help me. “Mary, show that you are my Mother.” By St.John XXIII
⚫️ The liturgical year draws to a close, the priest will be in purple, the Gloria will be gone, and we will be into the advent season, where we prepare our hearts, and the hearts of the Church, for the birth of Our Lord. While the liturgy will never “end” so long as we are on this earth, the Church wants us to ponder several things at the conclusion of this season of Pentecost. In today’s challenging environment, it would do us well to reflect upon them". By Kevin Tierney
Someone sent this email:
"Please pray for my desire to want to give my whole heart and self to God. I realized, that I am not there yet in wanting to do this 😔"
Led to respond by sharing a quote from St. Augustine, the great doctor and bonafide sinner turned saint. The saints are like CliffsNotes for the spiritual world. If only we would seek out those "icons" and let them rock our world, we would probably be Spiritual Rhodes Scholars in half the time. How much better it is to be skating rather than limping, it's worth it to be under their tutelage. After writing the above, later that day in the Adoration Chapel, Holland shared a letter written to him by Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó. A sentence by the archbishop served as a little confirmation for what was written earlier about the saints:
"Many saints that God has given us as guides and examples"
Quote by St. Augustine:
"God offers us a short route to the possession of himself. He cries out: "Love me and you will have me for you would be unable to love me if you did not possess me already"
My words to the person in an email:
Each day embrace a new you, a new chance at life, and have a new song in your heart. Ponder the line from St. Augustine. After pondering, get happy! Hallaluia, you already possess Him, Christ Jesus The Lord. Thank God by our Catholic faith, we get to really possess and hold Him captive in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. This gives so much more reassurance, and gives us a great reason to dismiss any and all unbelief.
St. Augustine ends the quote with this last line:
"Live good lives, and you yourselves will be His praise."
Are you living a good life or an evil life? If you are living a good life, then it is He alone who can come and dwell within, making it possible for you to live even a better life. As Jesus takes control of more real estate, He will live in you the perfect life.
"Please pray for my desire to want to give my whole heart and self to God. I realized, that I am not there yet in wanting to do this 😔"
Led to respond by sharing a quote from St. Augustine, the great doctor and bonafide sinner turned saint. The saints are like CliffsNotes for the spiritual world. If only we would seek out those "icons" and let them rock our world, we would probably be Spiritual Rhodes Scholars in half the time. How much better it is to be skating rather than limping, it's worth it to be under their tutelage. After writing the above, later that day in the Adoration Chapel, Holland shared a letter written to him by Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó. A sentence by the archbishop served as a little confirmation for what was written earlier about the saints:
"Many saints that God has given us as guides and examples"
Quote by St. Augustine:
"God offers us a short route to the possession of himself. He cries out: "Love me and you will have me for you would be unable to love me if you did not possess me already"
My words to the person in an email:
Each day embrace a new you, a new chance at life, and have a new song in your heart. Ponder the line from St. Augustine. After pondering, get happy! Hallaluia, you already possess Him, Christ Jesus The Lord. Thank God by our Catholic faith, we get to really possess and hold Him captive in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. This gives so much more reassurance, and gives us a great reason to dismiss any and all unbelief.
St. Augustine ends the quote with this last line:
"Live good lives, and you yourselves will be His praise."
Are you living a good life or an evil life? If you are living a good life, then it is He alone who can come and dwell within, making it possible for you to live even a better life. As Jesus takes control of more real estate, He will live in you the perfect life.
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me"
This will allow things to progress from good, to better, to best. You do your part, and God will certainly do His. Perfection is within His realm. Desire, and it will happen, with faith the unseen is seen. In the mean time, sing a new song, that is the tune He desires and wishes to hear from you.
This will allow things to progress from good, to better, to best. You do your part, and God will certainly do His. Perfection is within His realm. Desire, and it will happen, with faith the unseen is seen. In the mean time, sing a new song, that is the tune He desires and wishes to hear from you.
"The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me"
"Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them"
"they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth"
Even in heaven new songs are being sung. Agonize no longer, it's time for you to "Sing to the Lord a New Song". He knows your desires, for He alone, and not you, can bring those desires to fruition. The angels and saints are on your side. Walking on the side of light, hear them all saying in unison: "Sing to the Lord a New Song". God would love to hear you say:
Even in heaven new songs are being sung. Agonize no longer, it's time for you to "Sing to the Lord a New Song". He knows your desires, for He alone, and not you, can bring those desires to fruition. The angels and saints are on your side. Walking on the side of light, hear them all saying in unison: "Sing to the Lord a New Song". God would love to hear you say:
Great Things God Can Do ~ Ready & Willing To Do Them Just For You
🏉 O God, O God, O God, "You who can, who really, really, can
🏉 Versus, "I who can't" being not Divine but just a poor spiritual man"
🏉 O God, O God, O God, "You are who you say you are"
🏉 Versus "I who am not, not able by myself to reach the high bar"
🏉 No doubt who it is that in the end hand down wins
🏉 For sure it is not I, the one who repeatedly sins and sins
🏉 You who are mighty can do great and wonderful things for me,
🏉 It's 2 surrender & trust unfolding things are as you'd have them be
🏉 Help, cause apart from you I can do nothing", my Lord & my God
🏉 Dust I am, and unto dust I shall one day return to the sod
🏉 "Jesus help my unbelief & lack of trust for I want to trust in you"
🏉 Truth be told, "I surely can't trust in myself, that's for a fool to do"
🏉 It's better 2take refuge in da LORD than 2 trust in humans: Psalm 118:8
🏉 Thank you Lord for advice so practical and great
🏉Da bottom line is to cast worries & cares upon you wholeheartedly
🏉Knowing your help by merciful grace is ours both now & eternally
🏉If truth is internalized it can truly be a catalyst setting a man free
🏉 Nothing will be able to hinder one from praising & glorifying thee
🏉In you O Christ, we have everything we can ever possibly need
🏉 It's to just remain united with you & on your word spiritually feed
🏉Lessons must be learned, even if they are learned late
🏉They change our course significantly affecting our destiny & fate
🏉Lord God, thanks for what's being done & for what da future will hold
🏉As your children our inheritance are stores full of treasures untold
🏉Time to truly trust in you & place our lives squarely into your hand
🏉Convinced without a doubt in all da right places everything will land
Taking some time out for reading and sending out emails, eroded into my reading time. For one reason or another, time just couldn't be found for reading. Now it makes sense why reading a few pages just couldn't materialize until the appointed hour. The portion that is crucial to supporting the points being discussed would have been glossy over at any other time. So pertinent it is at this time, like no other. Just the night before, told Milton how good it was that he lent me that book a couple of years ago, and how sad to be only at the halfway point. Now it is to be seen why all things do truly work for good in God's Divine Timing, and not ours.
🏉 O God, O God, O God, "You who can, who really, really, can
🏉 Versus, "I who can't" being not Divine but just a poor spiritual man"
🏉 O God, O God, O God, "You are who you say you are"
🏉 Versus "I who am not, not able by myself to reach the high bar"
🏉 No doubt who it is that in the end hand down wins
🏉 For sure it is not I, the one who repeatedly sins and sins
🏉 You who are mighty can do great and wonderful things for me,
🏉 It's 2 surrender & trust unfolding things are as you'd have them be
🏉 Help, cause apart from you I can do nothing", my Lord & my God
🏉 Dust I am, and unto dust I shall one day return to the sod
🏉 "Jesus help my unbelief & lack of trust for I want to trust in you"
🏉 Truth be told, "I surely can't trust in myself, that's for a fool to do"
🏉 It's better 2take refuge in da LORD than 2 trust in humans: Psalm 118:8
🏉 Thank you Lord for advice so practical and great
🏉Da bottom line is to cast worries & cares upon you wholeheartedly
🏉Knowing your help by merciful grace is ours both now & eternally
🏉If truth is internalized it can truly be a catalyst setting a man free
🏉 Nothing will be able to hinder one from praising & glorifying thee
🏉In you O Christ, we have everything we can ever possibly need
🏉 It's to just remain united with you & on your word spiritually feed
🏉Lessons must be learned, even if they are learned late
🏉They change our course significantly affecting our destiny & fate
🏉Lord God, thanks for what's being done & for what da future will hold
🏉As your children our inheritance are stores full of treasures untold
🏉Time to truly trust in you & place our lives squarely into your hand
🏉Convinced without a doubt in all da right places everything will land
Taking some time out for reading and sending out emails, eroded into my reading time. For one reason or another, time just couldn't be found for reading. Now it makes sense why reading a few pages just couldn't materialize until the appointed hour. The portion that is crucial to supporting the points being discussed would have been glossy over at any other time. So pertinent it is at this time, like no other. Just the night before, told Milton how good it was that he lent me that book a couple of years ago, and how sad to be only at the halfway point. Now it is to be seen why all things do truly work for good in God's Divine Timing, and not ours.
"Your daily shortcomings should in no way cast you down or spoil your joy. listen to what St. John the great prophet of love, says:?I am writing this, my children, to stop you sining; but if anyone should sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, who is righteous; he is the sacrifice that takes our sins a better than anyone else, Saint John new Jesus's heart and the efficacy of the sacrifice of the cross. Saving you from sadness, this doctrine will also preserve you from a mistake and confidence in the personal value of your acts of atonement. Their value lies entirely in the fact that Christ assumes them. way, and not only ours but those of the whole world.
Better then anyone else, St. John knew Jesus's heart and the efficacy of the sacrifice of the cross. saving you from false sadness, this doctrine will also preserve you from a mistaken confidence in the personal value of your acts of atonement. their value lies entirely in the fact that Christ assumes them.
All weakness of yours should produce the reflex action of recourse to the satisfaction made by the Redeemer. Your tears are not what wash you, but Christ's blood, although you should indeed weep at having offended God. To him alone you need to be justified. God will account you justified not by your exact conformity to a code of laws, but by your clinging to and sharing in his righteousness. Do this, so that in looking at you, in you God sees the features of his son: This is the whole Christian vocation, intended to reproduce that image.
You cannot evade the task of stripping yourself to the bone, to transform yourself into the inward likeness of Jesus Christ. Little by little, you will have two reach a point where you think like him, judge like him, love what he loves like him, act with the same intention as his. You cannot achieve this without massive demolitions. Thus you will allow him to live in you, and will deserve the Father's approval. Only those animated by the Spirit of Jesus will he acknowledged as his sons. By these means you will make yourself holy"
Holland's letter
Better then anyone else, St. John knew Jesus's heart and the efficacy of the sacrifice of the cross. saving you from false sadness, this doctrine will also preserve you from a mistaken confidence in the personal value of your acts of atonement. their value lies entirely in the fact that Christ assumes them.
All weakness of yours should produce the reflex action of recourse to the satisfaction made by the Redeemer. Your tears are not what wash you, but Christ's blood, although you should indeed weep at having offended God. To him alone you need to be justified. God will account you justified not by your exact conformity to a code of laws, but by your clinging to and sharing in his righteousness. Do this, so that in looking at you, in you God sees the features of his son: This is the whole Christian vocation, intended to reproduce that image.
You cannot evade the task of stripping yourself to the bone, to transform yourself into the inward likeness of Jesus Christ. Little by little, you will have two reach a point where you think like him, judge like him, love what he loves like him, act with the same intention as his. You cannot achieve this without massive demolitions. Thus you will allow him to live in you, and will deserve the Father's approval. Only those animated by the Spirit of Jesus will he acknowledged as his sons. By these means you will make yourself holy"
Holland's letter
Artictle: "Praise and Thanksgiving, Especially for the Eucharist, Increase the Gifts and Discernment of Inspirations of the Holy Spirit", by Anthony Mullen
"We know from our Faith that God will grant us the Grace to respond to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit for our sanctification, but only if we truly love God and correspond with the effort of our free will to His Grace. St. Frances de Sales, Doctor of the Church, states: “…if we do not resist God’s Grace, He gives each of us the inspirations we need in order to live, act and maintain ourselves in the spiritual life.” It is the Gifts of the Holy Spirit placed in our soul at Baptism and strengthened at our Confirmation and further strengthened with each worthy Holy Communion, which allow us to hear and respond consistently to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. St. Thomas Aquinas, the great Doctor of the Church, states that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit “prepare the soul to follow promptly the impulse of Divine inspiration.” So, since the Gifts and Virtues of the Holy Spirit are essential to our growth in holiness, it is a matter of the greatest importance that we learn and practice all we can about the Gifts and how they open our faculties to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. But how do we activate and grow the Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Our guide in this matter, Fr. Jacques Philippe, from “In the School of the Holy Spirit”, explains that the main reason that we do not receive the necessary Grace is: WE FAIL TO THANK GOD FOR THE GRACES HE HAS ALREADY GIVEN TO US (emphasis added). He quotes St. Therese of Lisieux, another Doctor of the Church: “What most draws down graces from our dear Lord is gratitude, for if we thank Him for a gift, He hastens to give us ten more, and if we thank Him again with the same sincerity, what an incalculable multiplication of graces! I have experienced this; try it and see.”
Fr. Jacques asks us to see and understand that our subtle ingratitude, our failure to recognize our nothingness and that everything…every single thing we have is Grace…pure Gift…is indeed what stifles Grace, especially since we do not consistently thank God for all the blessings and benefits of each moment of each day and simply take them for granted (our Faith, Hope, Love, talents, skills, parents, country, occupation, house, food). Why is it that we are one of every three people in the world who believes in Christ? Why are we not in the two of every three people who do not know or believe in Christ? Why is it that we are a Catholic and not a Protestant? How is it that we know and believe in the Most Blessed Sacrament? How is it that we are in the 1% of all people who actually can and do take advantage of this Gift of all Gifts on a daily basis? How is it that we were chosen to know and receive the Extraordinary Flame of Love Grace? All is Pure Gift of an All-Loving, Infinite God! All we have is a gratuitous Gift! Yet, we take these incredible Gifts of God for granted…or certainly we do not thank God often and profusely for these incredible Gifts of His Love.
So, what must we do? We must change by begging for more Grace to be truly thankful each day and seek to practice praise and thanksgiving each day throughout the day, especially with formal prayers of praise and thanksgiving added to our daily prayer time; and with short bursts of praise and thanksgiving throughout the day….”Lord, I praise and thank you for everything You have given me!” Next, we must give more time and effort devoted to praising and thanking God from our free time. Worthily attending daily Mass with Holy Communion is the greatest way to thank and praise God! If we are already doing that…then making a Holy Hour each week would be the next gift of praise and thanksgiving! We must continue to give God more of our free time, which is now wasted on foolish things like TV, Internet and too much talking and entertainment. Instead, we must use this wasted time to especially praise Him and thank Him for the Graces we have received.
Once we become consistent at this praise and thanksgiving, we will begin to see and feel new Graces bestowed and we will begin to be more patient and docile in listening for the inspirations of the Holy Spirit at each moment of the day. We will then find we are growing closer to God and beginning to act more like His Mother and He would act in each situation of the day. We will see our bad habits and laziness begin to change! Come Holy Spirit, come into my daily life in a new and more powerful way with Your Gifts, and let me hear and act on all Your inspirations, so I may be Holy as You are Holy for Your Glory and the salvation of souls! I praise and thank You for all the Graces I have ever received and will ever receive! Please, I beg You to do this through the power of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! By trusting in our Mother and taking and living the Flame of Love Grace, this process of gratitude for Grace is accelerated and made much more secure! She is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Mediatrix of all Grace and Mother of perfect thanksgiving! Fiat!"
"We know from our Faith that God will grant us the Grace to respond to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit for our sanctification, but only if we truly love God and correspond with the effort of our free will to His Grace. St. Frances de Sales, Doctor of the Church, states: “…if we do not resist God’s Grace, He gives each of us the inspirations we need in order to live, act and maintain ourselves in the spiritual life.” It is the Gifts of the Holy Spirit placed in our soul at Baptism and strengthened at our Confirmation and further strengthened with each worthy Holy Communion, which allow us to hear and respond consistently to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. St. Thomas Aquinas, the great Doctor of the Church, states that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit “prepare the soul to follow promptly the impulse of Divine inspiration.” So, since the Gifts and Virtues of the Holy Spirit are essential to our growth in holiness, it is a matter of the greatest importance that we learn and practice all we can about the Gifts and how they open our faculties to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. But how do we activate and grow the Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Our guide in this matter, Fr. Jacques Philippe, from “In the School of the Holy Spirit”, explains that the main reason that we do not receive the necessary Grace is: WE FAIL TO THANK GOD FOR THE GRACES HE HAS ALREADY GIVEN TO US (emphasis added). He quotes St. Therese of Lisieux, another Doctor of the Church: “What most draws down graces from our dear Lord is gratitude, for if we thank Him for a gift, He hastens to give us ten more, and if we thank Him again with the same sincerity, what an incalculable multiplication of graces! I have experienced this; try it and see.”
Fr. Jacques asks us to see and understand that our subtle ingratitude, our failure to recognize our nothingness and that everything…every single thing we have is Grace…pure Gift…is indeed what stifles Grace, especially since we do not consistently thank God for all the blessings and benefits of each moment of each day and simply take them for granted (our Faith, Hope, Love, talents, skills, parents, country, occupation, house, food). Why is it that we are one of every three people in the world who believes in Christ? Why are we not in the two of every three people who do not know or believe in Christ? Why is it that we are a Catholic and not a Protestant? How is it that we know and believe in the Most Blessed Sacrament? How is it that we are in the 1% of all people who actually can and do take advantage of this Gift of all Gifts on a daily basis? How is it that we were chosen to know and receive the Extraordinary Flame of Love Grace? All is Pure Gift of an All-Loving, Infinite God! All we have is a gratuitous Gift! Yet, we take these incredible Gifts of God for granted…or certainly we do not thank God often and profusely for these incredible Gifts of His Love.
So, what must we do? We must change by begging for more Grace to be truly thankful each day and seek to practice praise and thanksgiving each day throughout the day, especially with formal prayers of praise and thanksgiving added to our daily prayer time; and with short bursts of praise and thanksgiving throughout the day….”Lord, I praise and thank you for everything You have given me!” Next, we must give more time and effort devoted to praising and thanking God from our free time. Worthily attending daily Mass with Holy Communion is the greatest way to thank and praise God! If we are already doing that…then making a Holy Hour each week would be the next gift of praise and thanksgiving! We must continue to give God more of our free time, which is now wasted on foolish things like TV, Internet and too much talking and entertainment. Instead, we must use this wasted time to especially praise Him and thank Him for the Graces we have received.
Once we become consistent at this praise and thanksgiving, we will begin to see and feel new Graces bestowed and we will begin to be more patient and docile in listening for the inspirations of the Holy Spirit at each moment of the day. We will then find we are growing closer to God and beginning to act more like His Mother and He would act in each situation of the day. We will see our bad habits and laziness begin to change! Come Holy Spirit, come into my daily life in a new and more powerful way with Your Gifts, and let me hear and act on all Your inspirations, so I may be Holy as You are Holy for Your Glory and the salvation of souls! I praise and thank You for all the Graces I have ever received and will ever receive! Please, I beg You to do this through the power of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! By trusting in our Mother and taking and living the Flame of Love Grace, this process of gratitude for Grace is accelerated and made much more secure! She is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Mediatrix of all Grace and Mother of perfect thanksgiving! Fiat!"
"Let us sing to the Lord a song of love", a sermon by St. Augustine:
Info from this site: http://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010508_agostino-vescovo_en.html
"Sing to the Lord a new song; his praise is in the assembly of the saints. We are urged to sing a new song to the Lord, as new men who have learned a new song. A song is a thing of joy; more profoundly, it is a thing of love. Anyone, therefore, who has learned to love the new life has learned to sing a new song, and the new song reminds us of our new life. The new man, the new song, the new covenant, all belong to the one kingdom of God, and so the new man will sing a new song and will belong to the new covenant.
There is not one who does not love something, but the question is, what to love. The psalms do not tell us not to love, but to choose the object of our love. But how can we choose unless we are first chosen? We cannot love unless someone has loved us first. Listen to the apostle John: We love him, because he first loved us. The source of man's love for God can only be found in the fact that God loved him first. He has given us himself as the object of our love, and he has also given us its source. What this source is you may learn more clearly from the apostle Paul who tells us: The love of God has been poured into our hearts. This love is not something we generate ourselves; it comes to us through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Since we have such an assurance, then, let us love God with the love he has given us. As john tells us more fully. God is love, and whoever dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. It is not enough to say: Love is from God. Which of us would dare to pronounce the words of Scripture: God is love? He alone could say it who knew what it was to have God dwelling within him. God offers us a short route to the possession of himself. He cries out: Love me and you will have me for you would be unable to love me if you did not possess me already.
My dear brothers and sons, fruit of the true faith holy seed of heaven, all you who have been born again in Christ and whose life is from above, listen to me; or rather, listen to the Holy Spirit saying through me: Sing to the Lord a new song. Look, you tell me, I am singing. Yes indeed, you are singing; you are singing clearly, I can hear you. But make sure that your life does not contradict your words. Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives: Sing to the Lord a new song.
Now it is your unquestioned desire to sing of him whom you love, but you ask me how to sing his praises. You have heard the words: Sing to the Lord a new song, and you wish to know what praises to sing. The answer is: His praise is in the assembly of the saints; it is in the singers themselves . lf you desire to praise him, then live what you express. Live good lives, and you yourselves will be his praise." (Sermo 34.1-3, 5-6; CCL 41, 424-426)
Prayer
"Father, you open the kingdom of heaven to those born again by water and the Spirit. Increase your gift of love in us. May all, who have been freed from sins in baptism receive all that you have promised. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever."
(Prepared by the Spiritual Theology Department of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross)
Info from this site: http://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010508_agostino-vescovo_en.html
"Sing to the Lord a new song; his praise is in the assembly of the saints. We are urged to sing a new song to the Lord, as new men who have learned a new song. A song is a thing of joy; more profoundly, it is a thing of love. Anyone, therefore, who has learned to love the new life has learned to sing a new song, and the new song reminds us of our new life. The new man, the new song, the new covenant, all belong to the one kingdom of God, and so the new man will sing a new song and will belong to the new covenant.
There is not one who does not love something, but the question is, what to love. The psalms do not tell us not to love, but to choose the object of our love. But how can we choose unless we are first chosen? We cannot love unless someone has loved us first. Listen to the apostle John: We love him, because he first loved us. The source of man's love for God can only be found in the fact that God loved him first. He has given us himself as the object of our love, and he has also given us its source. What this source is you may learn more clearly from the apostle Paul who tells us: The love of God has been poured into our hearts. This love is not something we generate ourselves; it comes to us through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Since we have such an assurance, then, let us love God with the love he has given us. As john tells us more fully. God is love, and whoever dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. It is not enough to say: Love is from God. Which of us would dare to pronounce the words of Scripture: God is love? He alone could say it who knew what it was to have God dwelling within him. God offers us a short route to the possession of himself. He cries out: Love me and you will have me for you would be unable to love me if you did not possess me already.
My dear brothers and sons, fruit of the true faith holy seed of heaven, all you who have been born again in Christ and whose life is from above, listen to me; or rather, listen to the Holy Spirit saying through me: Sing to the Lord a new song. Look, you tell me, I am singing. Yes indeed, you are singing; you are singing clearly, I can hear you. But make sure that your life does not contradict your words. Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives: Sing to the Lord a new song.
Now it is your unquestioned desire to sing of him whom you love, but you ask me how to sing his praises. You have heard the words: Sing to the Lord a new song, and you wish to know what praises to sing. The answer is: His praise is in the assembly of the saints; it is in the singers themselves . lf you desire to praise him, then live what you express. Live good lives, and you yourselves will be his praise." (Sermo 34.1-3, 5-6; CCL 41, 424-426)
Prayer
"Father, you open the kingdom of heaven to those born again by water and the Spirit. Increase your gift of love in us. May all, who have been freed from sins in baptism receive all that you have promised. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever."
(Prepared by the Spiritual Theology Department of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross)
Youtube video: "Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving", by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqY1lWZLUAQ&sns=em
Link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqY1lWZLUAQ&sns=em
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Holiness will sprout if U plant da right spiritual seed
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