Glorious Mysteries in Thanksgiving
The
Resurrection
1. Jesus
rose from the dead on the 3rd day. There is life after death.
2. We are
here to be purified and prepare for heaven.
3. God
gives us the Church, the priests and the seven sacraments.
4. Sin must
be paid for. Jesus suffered and died and rose on the 3rd day and
ascended into heaven. Jesus paid for our sins. Many despite all Jesus
did for them, will spend their life rejecting God.
5. We have
a free will to live according to God's Plan or to oppose the Father's
Plan. God does not change our free will, He wants us to obey His law, to
serve God in love and to love others, as we love ourselves.
6. God
gives us the commandments. This is His Law for us. God commands we put
Him first.
The first
commandment says, "I am the Lord Thy God, Thou shalt not have any gods
before Me."
7. God
gives us baptism; in baptism we receive a sharing in His life.
8. God
gives us the supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and love in baptism.
9. The
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, dwell in our graced, baptized soul.
10. The
spiritual life is centered in the pattern of death-resurrection. The
virtues of faith and love are the most important of the Christian
virtues because they assimilate us most intimately in God's life. God's
life is a life of divine knowing and loving, and through Christian faith
and love we participate in these Trinitarian operations. Hope, for its
part, gives a very special support to faith and love.
The
Ascension
1. Jesus
took Peter, John, and James near Bethany and He raised His arms and
ascended into heaven.
2. If
anyone says, "My love is fixed on God,"
yet hates his brother,
he is a liar.
One who has no love for the brother
he has seen
cannot love the God he has not seen. 1 John 4:20.
3. God
calls us to go out to others, to serve Him and others, to be Christ to
others in the world, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
4. In every
situation there are circumstances how God would like us to encounter
others.
In our
families and religious communities there are rules, authority and
obedience and love, different than how we treat outsiders in our lives.
We are to love as God wants us to love others, we are social beings. We
are to be Christ to one another in the world. We live the Christ-life
because of baptism.
5.
Christian charity, God intends us to love God and love our brothers as
ourselves.
6. In order
to grow in Christian maturity we are to co-operate and work in
relationships with God and others. God is our God. We are to obey and
love God with all our heart and all our soul and love our neighbor as
ourselves.
7. Sing:
Glory, Glory, Glory Lord
8. Sing:
Ave, Ave Maria
9. The
devil says "I will not serve". The devil is the Father of lies. The
devil wants power over individual souls, so he can enslave them as his
cohorts.
10. After
Jesus ascended into heaven, the Apostles were so afraid they locked
themselves in the upper room, praying and waiting for the coming of the
Holy Spirit.
The
Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles
1. Sing:
Come Holy Ghost
2. Sing:
Come Holy Spirit
3. Sing:
Veni Sancte Spiritus
4.
Acts
2: 1-4
When Pentecost day came round,
they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a
sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which
they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire;
these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different
languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.
5. From
the Prayer Manual
Holy Spirit Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier,
God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed
the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous
courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills,
purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and
preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.
6. From
the Holy Spirit Novena
Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts
Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts,
inflame all people with the fire of Your love.
Leader: Send forth Your
Spirit and all will be reborn.
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.
We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.
Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You
soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.
7.
Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the
world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace
to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are
the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore
You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You
most intimately.
8. Come
Holy Spirit fill us!
9.
Prayer for Holy Spirit
We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on
the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to
fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help
bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We
pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the
Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.
10.
Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit
Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant
or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.
Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs
for us.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and
to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your
commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love
them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know
the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is
right and what is wrong.
Song
between decades: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our…
The
Assumption of Mary into Heaven
1. Mary was
taken up into heaven, body and soul!
2. But she
remains with us this day. She is our spiritual mother. She is the mother
of the Church. Jesus is alive in the Church today.
3. Oh, how
our mother is so much with us this very day!
4. Dear
Mary, hold in your Heart all the especially anointed priests of your
Son, Jesus. Hold them in your Heart and, through the Holy Spirit, lead
them ever closer to the Eucharistic Heart of your Son, Jesus.
5. It is
through the pierced Heart of your Son that the sacramental life of the
Church was born-through the water, which represents baptism, and the
blood, which represents the Eucharist. We are given life and we are fed.
Hold the Church, and all those who minister there, in your Heart. Hold
them ever close to you for you are their mother. Mother the Church! Hold
them so close to you! Guide them! Protect them! Lead them through your
spouse, the Holy Spirit, filled with the fire of God's love, into this
world in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary will be triumphant!
6. Help us
in the Shepherds of Christ to carry out whatever is the Father's plan
for renewing the Church, for spreading the love of His Most Sacred Heart
to many people in the nursing homes, in the prisons, throughout the
world. Give us the courage through the Holy Spirit to spread the love of
the Two Hearts in this world that is in darkness.
7. Dear
Mary, help the priests, your beloved priest-sons, to realize the great
mission to which the Father has called them. Help them to lead the flock
to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ.
8. Help us
to be proud to be a part of your Church, to be a part of the living Body
of Christ alive in this world today.
9. The
Church is the Body of Christ. He is the head and we are the members. We
are all one in this Body of Christ. Unite us ever closer with you, Mary,
mother of the Church. Lead all in the Church to the most burning love of
the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!
10. Oh no!
Mary has not left! She is truly here in our midst! She is mothering us
and she is mothering the Church!
Song
between decades: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…
The
Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth
1. There
appeared in the sky a woman, clothed with the sun. The moon was under
her feet and there were twelve stars about her head.
2. Mary is
Queen of Heaven and Earth! The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph on this earth!
3. There
will be an era of peace. Peace is only found in God and in doing His
Will. We must turn our hearts back to God, follow the Ten Commandments,
do all that He is asking us to do, say we are sorry for our sins and
draw our hearts into union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
4. We are
the children of the Father! Jesus loved us so much that He gave His very
life for us. We are the favored children created uniquely by the Father
and He cares for us this day with great love. Lead us ever closer to
union with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit through the
Immaculate Heart of our mother Mary!
5. Song:
Hail, holy queen enthroned above, O Maria! Hail, mother of mercy and of
love, O Maria! Triumph, all ye Cherubim! Sing with us, ye Seraphim!
Heaven and earth resound the hymn, Salve, salve, salve, Regina!
6. All
souls are joined in the Church with the souls in purgatory and with the
angels and saints in heaven. We are all one in His Body. Let us love
God, for we are children of God. We are brothers in Christ!
7. Help us
to see more and more the big picture. Help us to let go of little
details and see more with the vision of God all that we need to see to
do His work here on this earth-to let go of the little daily
distractions, but to see that we are His soldiers marching on a world
that is godless. Help us to realize that souls are at stake and that
Mary and Jesus are calling us to be these soldiers to spread His love.
8. Who are
we that God is so good to us?
9. Mary,
our Queen, lead us ever closer to Jesus' Heart. Be with us as we walk
with Jesus on Calvary. Be with us and lead us to everlasting life so
that we may one day be united with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
forever and ever.
10. May the
saints and angels guide us on our way to eternal salvation. May we know
God more and more. May He outpour His love on us, His beloved ones. We
are His and He loves us so much!
Song after
last decade: Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts...
Song: Holy
God, we praise Thy name. Lord of all, we bow before Thee. All on earth
Thy scepter claim. All in heaven above adore Thee. Infinite, Thy vast
domain, everlasting is Thy reign. Infinite Thy vast domain, everlasting
is Thy reign!
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