"O comforter, to thee we cry..."
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J.M.J.
May 20, 2015
Day Six - Novena to the Holy Spirit
Dear Family of Mary!
Today
we consider the Holy Spirit as our Comforter and Strengthener. Our Lady
encourages us to open our hearts to the Holy Spirit so He can transform
us. The Holy Spirit will help us to call God our Father and make us
capable of love! St. Paul in The Letter to the Ephesians says the very
same thing, that through the Holy Spirit we will be strengthen in the
inner man and we will be grounded in love. We need very much the
strengthening and comforting love of the Holy Spirit, for we are
naturally weak and lack the power to love on our own. Oh Comforter to
thee we cry!
Our Lady asked us to open our hearts to the Holy Spirit:
"Dear
children, Today I call you to open your hearts to the Holy Spirit and
permit Him to transform you. My children, God is the immeasurable good
and therefore, as a mother, I implore you: Pray, pray, pray, fast and
hope that it is possible to achieve good, because from that good love is
born. The Holy Spirit will strengthen that love in you and you will be
able to call God your Father. Through this exalted love, you will truly
come to love all people and, through God, you will regard them as
brothers and sisters. Thank you." (November 2, 2007)
St. Paul prays that we might be strengthen by the Spirit in the inner man:
For
this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family
in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his
glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit
in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to
comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height
and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Eph 3: 14-20)
Let us pray through this wonderful hymn to the Holy Spirit:
Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
And in our souls take up your rest;
Come with your grace and heavenly aid
To fill the hearts which you have made.
Come with your grace and heavenly aid
To fill the hearts which you have made.
O Comforter, to you we cry,
O heavenly gift of God Most High,
O fount of life and fire of love,
And sweet anointing from above.
You in your sevenfold gifts are known;
You, finger of God's hand we own;
You, promise of the Father, you
Who do the tongue with power imbue.
Kindle our senses from above,
And make our hearts overflow with love;
With patience firm and virtue high
The weakness of our flesh supply.
Far from us drive the foe we dread,
And grant us your peace instead;
So shall we not, with you for guide,
Turn from the path of life aside.
Oh, may your grace on us bestow
The Father and the Son to know;
And you, through endless times confessed,
Of both the eternal Spirit blest.
Now to the Father and the Son,
Who rose from death, be glory given,
With you, O holy Comforter,
Henceforth by all in earth and heaven.
Amen.
In Jesus Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2015
PS. Here is the link to Kathie Duggan's interview of Mike Nolan on "Sacred Treasures" - Radio Maria. It is a great witness:
It is title "Michael Baru" May 18, 2015
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
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