Well, we learn from our unforgettable Teacher that what Satan wants is to wrench from us the three theological virtues. I ask you to accept this little book as a token of the esteem and admiration I have for you. So, how great must those torments of Christ have been, there on the Cross, suffering such terrible pain, praying for the gift he so wished to obtain for us. Finally, however, she remained in her home town, cultivating a little plot of land which she rented to make a living, and adopting no form of religious life in the canonical sense. Who is more concerned for our temporal and eternal welfare? Satan, our common enemy, knows that he can do very little with the pupils who attend this school, first of all because it is impossible for him to get in there and secondly because, although he prowls around the walls listening, it is of no avail, for there is nothing to be heard; in this school everything happens in silence, quietness, rest and complete reserve. 10 Day Devotion to the Holy Spirit - Free download as Word Doc (.doc / .docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. However, the torment which Christ suffered and the torment of those souls are less comparable than reality to shadow; and yet the moment this happens to them we know that their heart breaks in two with pain and suffering. If he catches one, he has the three almost within his grasp. Nunc coepi! You who are consecrated to the service of the Lord, consider how this divine Master teaches us to do good generously and disinterestedly, whether it be to a friend or to an enemy, someone near to us or a complete stranger, someone grateful or someone ungrateful. You are indeed blessed, O divine light, and a thousand times blessed. If all those people who aspire to holiness and desire it passionately realized this simple fact, then soon, very soon, they would achieve what they desire; and it is very sad to see so many souls who want to be saints who do not take the proper means to attain what they desire. For souls consecrated to the service of the Lord this is the mask he uses to cover his face, and so he comes with appearances of great zeal. It is as if a man born blind, who knows what nature is merely through what others have told him of it, were suddenly to lose his blindness and see nature face to face, as it really is. He also exhorts us very strongly not to offend or criticize any of our neighbors, because anyone who offends or criticizes another is far from being a saint. We cannot see what goes on in the heart or soul of another, and this is the only thing that matters to God, the only thing that pleases or displeases him. And this reward which he gives us, this gift which he bestows on us, is the ability to pray without interruption, prayer which is disturbed neither by sleeping, nor by recreation, nor by speaking to our neighbors, nor by eating, nor by working, whatever our occupation may be—in fact nothing can interrupt it; and with this prayer we acquire the intimate contact that God wants to have with our soul. The reserve we practice and exercise in this school is such that everything the soul learns there remains engraved and concealed in the center of the soul, so that neither Satan nor creatures know anything of it. There she lived all her life as a poor dressmaker and there she died at the age of seventy-three, on 29 January 1930, in the Carmelite convent. Because Satan wishes to deprive God of the joy he takes in loving and being loved by men, now he is actually the most useful and most opportune instrument that God has for shaping, forming and polishing all the genuine saints. And how have these creatures of yours responded to that infinite goodness which so much wished to ennoble, elevate and enrich them? Leave a Comment From the feast of the Ascension to Pentecost, the Church recalls the days the Apostles spent in prayer awaiting the promised coming of the Holy Spirit. My holiness will be in proportion to my mortification. For the Person intended by you to conclude that work and bring it to fulfillment is your holy and divine Spirit. (, Mass of Thanksgiving homily-The Priesthood, Follow All for the Heart of Jesus on WordPress.com. O my Teacher, my all in all things and in every single thing, make yourself known to all men, for they do not yet know you; at least make yourself known properly to the small group of souls that are consecrated to you. The Greatest Gift-----of the Holy Spirit 7. When it comes to the question of practice, each person has to act according to his strength and ability; because in this school, although we all have to practice the same things, our Teacher is so prudent and discreet, so merciful and compassionate, that he never demands of us more than each one can give, and he wants each of us to read the book for himself and to do what he finds written there. Amen. The second type of writing was directly intended to spread pious devotions and practices. And whenever there is no creature to mortify them, then God, great as he is in all things, sees to it himself; thus showing the souls who wish to be his that mortification must be something continuous, like the beating of the heart. April 22, 2018. Those who are consecrated to God in the solitude of their cloisters attach great importance and esteem to what are called visions and revelations. For he is so loving and takes pity on us, seeing that we are ignorant, and he never demands or asks more than we can do. For all this is what the divine Essence contains. He wants us always to go to him with perfect confidence. He was keeping back, as it were, cherished in his heart, that great request he wanted to make of his eternal Father, that great gift he wanted to ask for above all other gifts, and he waited until he was hanging on the Cross to ask it. Come and never leave us until we are in possession of everything your infinite goodness wished to bestow on us before we came to be, when you were so eager to bring us into existence. So let us leave the joys aside for the present: there is an eternity filled with joys awaiting us. The Father is known; the Son is known; only the third Person, the Holy Spirit is unknown! We are also in www.fb.com/Catholicsstrivingforholiness. We know through faith that there is only one true God and that he neither had a beginning nor will have an end; and although there is only one God there are in him three distinct Persons whom we call the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the three are only one God, the three being the one and the same divine Essence. O, you are the only object of my love; whenever I open my ears for a moment to listen to your creatures speaking, I close them immediately, for it grieves me to have to listen to the outcries they utter against you, their Creator. That unselfish love we owe to God our Lord and Master does not burn in our souls, and continuous mortification is unknown to us: yet both these exercises are absolutely necessary for us to go to you. So, whatever it may cost our nature, let us sanctify our soul and give joy to God in all things. An eternity of joys is being even now prepared for us; to suffer in order to achieve those joys, we have only the present short life; so let us make the best of it and suffer now for Christ Jesus, our divine Redeemer, as much as we can. However, let us not think about the joys which loving nothing but God brings. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us. And how ardently he desired to give his life for us! It wants to call out to him, but it is incapable of uttering a word. O holy and divine Spirit, make more and more souls attend your school, so that you can teach them to love this divine Heart which so loves us. Come then, O holy and divine Spirit, come as a Teacher and show us from this day on how to practice that unselfish love; set alight that fire of divine love in our soul and there is no doubt but that with it we shall then willingly undertake the practice of mortification. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. Reverend Charlie Holt created the The Spirit-Filled Life to invite others to come under the Kingdom of God by first being baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Posted on May 11, 2018 by Fr Peter Crowe. Perhaps such a man could tell us the difference between the reality as he sees it and what he has been told of it by others. Who loves us more than he? Once he sees how cowardly we are, he speaks to our soul in such a way that it immediately begins to bum with desire to undertake even the most difficult things, and with a manly spirit it starts to do battle against itself; then with that courage which it shows in the fight, denying the appetites everything they ask, it comes out the winner in all the contests. I make the same challenge to you. Who prompts them to do so? And what does she do then? Devotion to the Holy Spirit Prayers: Thanksgiving for Baptismal Graces Prayer to the Holy Spirit The traditional form of petition to the Holy Spirit is to invoke the Father through Christ our Lord to give us the Consoler Spirit. It becomes quite ill with such great sorrow, thinking that it has lost its God forever because it has lost its faith in him. Now, once we are convinced of this fact, we can go ahead and speak of what is most pleasing to God and of great benefit to ourselves. The way to attain true holiness is none other, nor is there any other way that will lead us more surely or more quickly to that end, than self-conquest and self-mortification. No one can utter a word when he is so overwhelmed; and even if he could speak how could he express something so completely above all our understanding? May the Holy Spirit, the ‘Great Unknown’, grant that, being published now for the first time in English, it may continue to be a consolation, a stimulus and an encouragement, and that vocations to holiness may multiply without limit among Christians in all walks of life throughout the world. You want us always and in all things to act as children of our holy Father, and how are you to accept or find glory in anything we do or in any sacrifices we make without purity of intention, which means they are not done for you? We should never be upset by that petty pride, or envy, with which some people who are far from perfect hear the praises of others or see them do some act of virtue; because he tells us that anyone who commits this sin is as if dominated by it and anything good he sees or hears about his neighbors hurts him as if he saw them committing great sins, because spiritual envy rots anyone who has it, right to his innermost parts, and his spiritual ruin is certain. It is not easy to do things without looking for at least a little satisfaction or consolation in them, because our whole being knows and feels that we were created for joy and for joy alone; but unfortunately, as we know, our poor first parents Adam and Eve were deceived and seduced by Satan. And how well our divine Savior knew we would need him in everything we try to do! Check out these materials: Inspiring Women: A 30 Day Devotion Series All is Well: A 40 Day Harry Potter Themed Devotion Series 10 Day Disney Themed Devotion Series. The Holy Spirit is a lover of quiet and repose, of that repose which the souls feels when it seeks and desires nothing but its God. For he has no body, no shape, no appearance: who then can tell us what he is like? On that day, Jesus promised his disciples that he would send them the Holy Spirit… Rita Corbett Rita grew up with her parents as missionaries in Africa, she lives in Canada with her husband Grant and daughter Chelsea and they have 5 Children. The Ten-Day Devotion to the Holy Spirit is a long-standing custom encouraged by the Church that begins ten days before Pentecost on Ascension Thursday, the day that Jesus our Lord ascended into Heaven. DOWNLOAD PDF FILE LINK AT THE END OF THE DOCUMENT, To those who wish to get the full benefit of this ten-day devotion, OPENING PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE DEVOTION, CONCLUDING PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE DEVOTION. Amen. Send him once again into the world, for the world does not know him; and you will know, my God and my all, that without him we can never possess you, while with him, I am convinced, we will be able to possess you through love in this life and to possess you truly for all eternity. Spirit of peace and patience, have mercy on us. O unforgettable Teacher, what are the wise men of this world compared with you? DAILY PRAYER TO SANTO NIÑO (HOLY CHILD JESUS). These last are your great concern; it is in them you find your greatest honor and your greatest glory, for although everything we do out of love for you is pleasing, those deeds done for the benefit and salvation of souls, these and these alone, you tell us, are for your greatest honor and your greatest glory. Of hope, what can I say? “But although the subject matter is so lofty, what distinguishes the book most from any other, even those treating of the same subjects as these here treated, is the form in which sublime subject matter is expounded. Come and console them, O divine Consoler, for they have forgotten themselves and neither want nor ask nor desire nor wish for anything other than you-you as light and you as fire, so that you may set the earth on fire from one end to the other, so that they may have the consolation in this life of seeing you known, loved and served by all creatures, so that your loving plans may be fulfilled in all men and that all of us who now exist on earth, together with those who are to exist between now and the end of the world, may all praise and bless you in your divine presence for ever and ever. This divine Essence has several attributes; and since it is only one God, although there are three Persons in him, all three have and possess the same wisdom, the same goodness, the same love, the same mercy, the same power and the same justice. There is a special lesson on fasting. If he produces these effects in a soul that merely sees him, what joy will the soul not feel when it actually possesses him? On this point he was humiliated, because the punishment God imposed on our first parents was merely temporal, while he condemned Satan for all eternity, world without end, for as long as God would continue to be God, which he is for ever … and ever. He has even given us his own love, so that we can love him with it! WELCOME TO CATHOLICS STRIVING FOR HOLINESS! To help them to achieve what they aspire to with that ardent desire of their souls, I am going to tell them what was taught and given to me by a most wise Teacher, who is the source and fountain of all wisdom and knowledge. What then will the soul not feel at the sight of all his perfections and virtues and attributes together? SEVENTH DAY’S OFFERING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, A firm resolution to seek nothing for ourselves that may savor of consolation, but rather to do all things merely to serve and give joy to God. And who can speak to us adequately or tell us anything clearly about God? Because this divine Person is, as it were, the action of God, who comes down on us to unite us with him and to make us, through love, like a single being with him. Then in the midst of all this immense and almost infinite pain, as if away in the distance, like something it has dreamed without realizing it has been dreaming, it remembers the Church and the love we owe it; and just like a person who has lost consciousness, and is coming to himself again and wants to speak but can only pronounce incoherent words, so the soul remembers the Church and, unable to speak, stutters as if trying to say: I unite myself to all the beliefs of my mother the Church, and I want to believe nothing but what she believes. This indeed is goodness, mercy, love, and love supreme! Believe me, he always looks on us as children, because in relation to him we always act as children. Continuing the 10-Day Devotion to the Holy Spirit, we look at how the Holy Spirit guides us on a daily basis. How can we expect any creature to be able to do so, since from their very beginning they are nothing? The Fruits of the Holy Spirit 6. In this school, directed by the Holy Spirit in the center of our soul, the subject we learn is away above all human subjects. But if his internal arrow strikes hope or charity he is not quite so pleased with himself, because these wounds are easily healed; if he strikes faith, it is a mortal wound, and then how delighted he is! On this point Satan made a big mistake; he thought that if he seduced the first two human beings, Adam and Eve, God would punish them as he had punished him and that God would thus be deprived of the joy he got from loving and being loved by man. To be Spirit-filled Christians is to be the kind of Christians that God wants us to be. And the more he gives us, the more his infinite goodness still wishes to give us. And just think what it will be like when we see ourselves loved by God in the sight of all angels and all men, with a love such as God’s which is like no other love, for it leaves the soul intoxicated with happiness, fills it to the brim and leaves nothing else for it to desire! Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us. But let us leave aside those joys for the moment and continue to consider the teaching methods of this most admirable and wise Teacher. Holy and divine Spirit, leave us not until we are in the possession of the divine Essence, heaven of heavens. Share to help others in their Catholic faith and life. What he wishes then is that, whenever we see one of the pupils of this school being raised by God to great heights while we are left where we are, we should help him and join with him in giving thanks to God for having deigned to glance at him, but that we should never praise or exalt the person himself, because we cannot know whether in fact he deserves praise for what he has or contempt for what he does. My only Lord and Master! At the very moment when the power of the Father brings them into being and forms them from the mud, with your divine breath you fill the soul which you have given them with life, and life immortal. 10-day Devotion to the Holy Spirit ABOUT NEWS LIBRARY SHOP DONATE COME, HOLY SPIRIT TEN-DAY DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT This year, on May 15th, the Church celebrates Pentecost Sunday. And how are they to seek it in you when they do not believe in you and deny your existence? And what is the effort we put into knowing ourselves when we compare it with the great benefits we derive from it? When the soul is habitually in this state of repose, and desires to know nothing but the will of God in order to fulfil it at once, then it enjoys constant peace; and when this peace is there then the Holy Spirit comes to that soul and makes, as it were, his abode there; and he governs and gives orders and commands as one who feels at home. He is immensely pleased with himself when he finds a prey in any one of them, for he prowls in search of them one at a time. Stream 10-Day Devotion to the Holy Spirit | Day 2 by ST. JOSEMARIA INSTITUTE from desktop or your mobile device. Love substantial of the Father and the Son, have mercy on us. Francisca Javiera del Valle was born on 3 December 1856 in Carrion de los Condes, in Spain. You who are a boundless ocean of boundless glory and happiness were, so to speak, lacking something when you had no one with whom to share everything you had and have. Although the school takes place in the center of our soul, nevertheless we cannot go in there unless the Teacher allows us: however much we may want to go in ourselves we neither know the way nor have the ability. He tells us, also, that God so abhors anyone who treats his neighbor deceitfully that no such person will enter or enjoy rest in him. You can see how true this is in everyone: you will seldom lose anyone’s friendship by praising him! In these she wrote of the Blessed Trinity, the Blessed Virgin and St Joseph, of the virtues of obedience, humility, conquest of self and fear of the Lord, of the punishment inflicted on the angels and of temptations, the Holy Eucharist, the ways, joys and friendships of God, the distinction between good and bad spirit, and many other subjects relating to God and the spiritual life. In this school we seem to breathe wisdom and knowledge, and all this wisdom and knowledge is directed towards knowing God and knowing ourselves; for that is the foundation of everything we are taught; until this is well grasped by the soul it cannot make any progress; the Teacher suspends all his lessons, and until this fact is well rooted in the soul he does not go ahead with his teaching. He shows us how to love God as he loves us. The intellect has nothing to do but examine the truth, and it sees it perfectly with the clarity of the light which has been given it for that very purpose, and it understands it without any difficulty whatever; the intellect then communicates the truth to the will, and the will either loves it or detests and hates it, depending on what it is. The Holy Spirit insists again and again on how displeasing it is to God that we should treat or speak to our neighbor deceitfully; and he forbids us to expose, manifest or express in any way whatever the weaknesses, imperfections, faults or sins of our neighbors. Do you think God is satisfied with merely external things, as we are? How badly we respond to such immense kindness! Teach them to seek, wish and desire no other love but yours and to respond generously to the love you have for them, Heaven of heavens, let me enjoy the consolation of seeing you soon known and loved by all your creatures. 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