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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