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July 30th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 4 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for July 30th are Joyful.
Please pray
for all urgent intentions.
Messenger: Open our Hearts Oh Lord
Let our Hearts be filled with Your
Light.
Dear God give us the grace to know
and to love You.
Oh God — Help us
Sing: Come Holy Ghost
Pray Holy Spirit Prayer
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.
Excerpt from Tell My People
The Holy Spirit
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
July 29, 2006 message continues
Messenger: Help us to pray to be holy.
We pray for the priests, the Church and
the world.
Wash us clean.
Saturate us with Your light.
Help us to be holy.
Help us to be as You desire us to be.
Help us to be as You desire us to be
creatures on the face of this
earth reflecting the love of God
in all our actions.
God transform us, let us be creatures
of light.
Help us to be as You desire loving
You and one another —
living according to Your will —
Transform our hearts to be hearts
likened to Yours.
Sing: Father we adore You —
Jesus we adore You
Holy Spirit we adore You
Mary we love you.
God has given us talents —
He has allowed us to be tested
to bring us to this place —
He wants us to pray and to be
Shepherds of Christ to help
through our prayer and
our service many others!!
God help us to model our lives
after Mary.
To be a holy disciple of Jesus —
To serve God as He desires —
To be the handmaid of the Lord —
To recognize that how we serve
God in love can be an example
and a light to others —
Help us to never allow ourselves to
have motives that are impure —
Help all that we do to be for Your
honor and glory.
Help us to serve you with the
purpose to do God's will
and promote His Kingdom
as He desires —
Help us to do things to be more
perfected as Our Heavenly Father —
Help us to do things in love
Help us to do things every day chores,
like Mary, in great love.
Luke 1: 46-55
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
July 29, 2006 message continues
Messenger: Lets meditate on the lives of Jesus and
Mary —
Oh God we praise and love You so
much.
Oh God we praise and love You.
We sing Alleluia for the gifts
given to us —
Help us to be stewards —
To do things in love for Jesus
and not to count the cost —
to do things in love to
serve God because it is
His holy will.
We offer all our actions as a sacrifice —
united to the Masses going on
around the world —
Oh lives are lived in joy as You
desire — united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass going
on around the world —
Oh God let our eyes be fixed on You —
Our hearts realize our joy comes
in loving - giving - serving
You as you desire —
We unite everything we do in deep oneness
with our God.
A package of love for our God —
Because we love Him —
We want to please Him —
He deserves love — freely given —
Not selfishness —
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
July 29, 2006 message continues
Messenger: Oh God we love You so much —
We give our lives as a sacrifice —
united to the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass going on
around the world.
Ephesians 4: 1-6
I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you therefore to lead a life worthy of the vocation to which you were called. With all humility and gentleness, and with patience, support each other in love. Take every care to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, over all, through all and within all.
John 6: 1-15
After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee—or of Tiberias—and a large crowd followed him, impressed by the signs he had done in curing the sick. Jesus climbed the hillside and sat down there with his disciples. The time of the Jewish Passover was near.
Looking up, Jesus saw the crowds approaching and said to Philip, ‘Where can we buy some bread for these people to eat?’ He said this only to put Philip to the test; he himself knew exactly what he was going to do. Philip answered, ‘Two hundred denarii would not buy enough to give them a little piece each.’ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said, ‘Here is a small boy with five barley loaves and two fish; but what is that among so many?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Make the people sit down.’ There was plenty of grass there, and as many as five thousand men sat down. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were sitting there; he then did the same with the fish, distributing as much as they wanted. When they had eaten enough he said to the disciples, ‘Pick up the pieces left over, so that nothing is wasted.’ So they picked them up and filled twelve large baskets with scraps left over from the meal of five barley loaves. Seeing the sign that he had done, the people said, ‘This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.’ Jesus, as he realised they were about to come and take him by force and make him king, fled back to the hills alone.
Philippians 2: 7-8
But he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
becoming as human beings are;
and being in every way
like a human being,
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.
July 29, 2006 message continues
Messenger: Most religious orders take the vow
or promise of obedience and
chastity.
These two vows or promises are
necessary if celibate women
and men are to live so in
religious life.
When we give bad example we teach
others our bad habits where
good habits would have been
followed if we had not taught
them our bad habits.
A leader has an added responsibility not
to disobey the rules —
to show how they follow their vow
of chastity
A leader teaches others about
obedience.
If singles were single because they
did not wish to compromise and work
in relationships they are not good
candidates for leaders of community life.
Mary showed us how she lived and obeyed
Jesus.
Jesus showed us how He obeyed His
Father.
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