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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Our Lady of Trust Novena 2012


Pro Sanctity Our Lady of Trust Novena 2012

Please join us in 9 days of prayer and reflection in preparation for the  feast of Our Lady of Trust on February 19th 2012.  The novena will officially begin tomorrow, February 10th 2012

Our Novena this year will be based on “Family:  A Community of Love” by Bishop Giaquinta.  Our goal in this novena is to help families to increase their trust in God and each other as they realize the vital importance of their role in the church and in society

We will format our novena  by taking a portion of Bishop Giaquinta’s work and reflecting on it, relating it to a passage in the Gospel and then praying for the courage to act using the method of the Explosive Gospel.  We encourage you to pray this novena together as a family. 

For those of you not familiar with the concept of the explosive gospel, it is a very simple, yet extremely powerful way to pray with scripture that helps us to bring the love of Christ to our world.    It involves reading the particular passage from the gospel 3 times
           
            The first time we read, we focus on  how Christ is communicating His love for us through the passage,  
           
            The second time we read the same passage and focus on how we hear God                     challenging  us through the passage, and what more we could be and do in our lives as a response to His love

We then read the passage a third time  we read and pray with the same passage, making a commitment to a particular action based on what we have heard from the Holy Spirit

For the first 5 days of our novena we will focus on five particular aspects of family spirituality defined by Bishop Giaquinta:  Home, Brotherhood,  Joy, Social Missionary Action, and Self Giving Love.  For the last 4 days of our novena we will delve further into the aspect of Self Giving Love and it’s power to transform our world


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