Mary TV Daily Reflection 5th Day of Novena

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May 22, 2012 Saint Rita of Cascia   Dear Family of Mary!   "Dear children; Today I call you to unity in Jesus, my Son. My motherly heart prays that you may comprehend that you are God's family. Through the spiritual freedom of will, which the Heavenly Father has given you, you are called to become cognizant (to come to the knowledge) of the truth, the good or the evil. May prayer and fasting open your hearts and help you to discover the Heavenly Father through my Son. In discovering the Father, your life will be directed to carrying out of God's will and the realization of God's family, in the way that my Son desires. I will not leave you alone on this path. Thank you." (January, 2nd 2011)   The gift of knowledge is well described in this message of January 2, 2011. Our Lady intercedes through her motherly heart for her children to know that we are all one in God's family. This kind of knowledge is heaven sent. It is a new way of perceiving everything with the eyes of faith, the eyes of the Spirit. This new perception shows us that only God is good. Only God is worthy of our worship. Only God is the source of life and love. This knowledge is truly the discovery of God! It is the experience of God, if you will. All of a sudden God exists and is present to us, and we know Him, we see Him, we feel Him, we encounter Him in all His wonder and love. That knowledge transforms us into people of light, into God's family of love. Our free will finally can be activated, as we choose the ultimate Good, our God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit and infuse your knowledge in us!   FIFTH DAY (Tuesday, 7th Week of Easter)   Light immortal! Light Divine! Visit Thou these hearts of Thine, And our inmost being fill!   The Gift of Knowledge The gift of Knowledge enables the soul to evaluate created things at their true worth--in their relation to God. Knowledge unmasks the pretense of creatures, reveals their emptiness, and points out their only true purpose as instruments in the service of God. It shows us the loving care of God even in adversity, and directs us to glorify Him in every circumstance of life. Guided by its light, we put first things first, and prize the friendship of God beyond all else. "Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesses it."   Prayer Come, O Blessed Spirit of Knowledge, and grant that I may perceive the will of the Father; show me the nothingness of earthly things, that I may realize their vanity and use them only for Thy glory and my own salvation, looking ever beyond them to Thee, and Thy eternal rewards. Amen.   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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