Mary TV Daily Reflection 5/24/2012 7th Day of Novena

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May 24, 2012   Dear Family of Mary!   "Dear children, today I call you to open your heart to the Holy Spirit and to permit Him to transform you. My children, God is the Immeasurable Good and therefore, as a mother, I implore you to pray, pray, pray, to fast and to hope that it is possible to attain that good, because love is born of that good. The Holy Spirit will reinforce that good in you and you will be able to call God your Father. Through this exalted love, you will sincerely come to love all people and, through God, consider them brothers and sisters. Thank you." (November 2, 2007 - Mirjana)   The Gift of Counsel, as the prayer below so aptly puts it, is "supernatural common sense"! Counsel helps us apply all we have received through the other gifts to our everyday circumstances. As I was reading Our Lady's messages to prepare this reflection, I realized that Our Lady's messages ARE the Gift of Counsel! She gives us very good advice on how to live in holiness. Her messages are down to earth, common sense, practical advice on how to live for God. She is making the Gift of Counsel tangible in her messages! We have only to let them guide us. (Even so, her counsel predominantly is that we pray and do what the Holy Spirit guides us to do, so it isn't as easy as all that!)   "My children, God is the Immeasurable Good..." For me there is a strong anointing on this statement from the message above. God is the Immeasurable Good. We all long for goodness. We want to be good. We want others to be good, our parents, our siblings, our friends, our leaders, our priests and bishops. We want to be surrounded by the good. But we do not experience immeasurable good here on earth. Sooner or later, all of our companions fail. Sooner or later, we fail. The good eludes us. It is saddening. But, to believe in an Immeasurable Good is to hang on to the hope that somewhere Good is infinite and will not fail us! Good, the Good God, will never stop being good. That is a hope to be cherished and clasped close to our hearts. It is something the Holy Spirit wants to reveal to us, something we can live for. Such a belief will help us to choose the good in our little, finite lives, as an act of unity with the Immeasurable Good! In this we will find Counsel, the way to the Good in our own circumstances!   SEVENTH DAY (Thursday, 7th Week of Easter) Heal our wounds--our strength renews; On our dryness pour Thy dew, Wash the stains of guilt away.   The Gift of Counsel The gift of Counsel endows the soul with supernatural prudence, enabling it to judge promptly and rightly what must be done, especially in difficult circumstances. Counsel applies the principles furnished by Knowledge and Understanding to the innumerable concrete cases that confront us in the course of our daily duty as parents, teachers, public servants, and Christian citizens. Counsel is supernatural common sense, a priceless treasure in the quest of salvation. "Above all these things, pray to the Most High, that He may direct thy way in truth."   Prayer Come, O Spirit of Counsel, help and guide me in all my ways, that I may always do Thy holy will. Incline my heart to that which is good; turn it away from all that is evil, and direct me by the straight path of Thy commandments to that goal of eternal life for which I long.   Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be to the Father SEVEN TIMES.    ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT    To be recited daily during the Novena   On my knees I, before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring keenness of Your justice, and the might of Your love. You are the Strength and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light, and listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds, and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my infirmity, to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere, "Speak Lord for Your servant is listening." Amen.   PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT    To be recited daily during the Novena   O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit on Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You  and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.   In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan   ©Mary TV 2012     Full novena prayers found at http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/pentecost/seven_tx.htm

 

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