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Friday, October 31, 2014

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

October 31: Holy Spirit, grant us the awareness that we are members of the Body of Christ, journeying together to holiness.


Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:
http://prosanctity.blogspot.com/2014/10/novena-for-november-1st-day-of.html

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Journeying with the Founder Day #361

Personal holiness does not exist in isolation from the reality of the Mystical Body because each person is essentially a social being. My personal deficiencies affect [not only myself but they affect] the Mystical Body, too, just as my other failures or my holiness—my personal acts—affect the Mystical Body. Thus there are two dimensions for each one of us: the personal dimension of our own holiness—our own relationship with God and our own personal merit, and the social one—the contribution we give to the Mystical Body in a conscious or unconscious way. (Holiness)



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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

October 30: Lord, give us the right perspective in life that we may understand that we are on a journey in which we are called to follow the Way, so that we may have eternal life.


Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:
prosanctity.blogspot.com/2014/10/novena-for-november-1st-day-of.html

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Journeying with the Founder Day #360

It is not enough to know the world—we need to love it because it isn’t merely the stars, the sun, the moon, or the trees. The world is made up of our brothers and sisters for whom Christ Jesus died on the Cross, to whom He sent us and keeps on sending us as His apostles, and for whom we must have a great love.(Holiness)
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 6)

October 29: Grant me, and everyone, the gift of wholeness, that I may become what You have made me to be, O Lord.


Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:
http://prosanctity.blogspot.com/2014/10/novena-for-november-1st-day-of.html

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Journeying with the Founder Day #359

The more we bring selfishness, individualism, and our ego into the apostolate, the less space we give the Spirit. We must be instruments of the Spirit; we must give Him space and be aware that the results of any of our undertakings come from Him rather than from our prowess or our technological capabilities or any other means.(Holiness)
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 5)

October 28: Father, give us the grace to respond to Your love to the maximum, understanding that to follow Christ is a commitment of every moment.

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:
http://prosanctity.blogspot.com/2014/10/novena-for-november-1st-day-of.html


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Journeying with the Founder Day #358

Today the first, essential condition for holiness is synchronizing oneself with the historic moment. (Holiness)
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Monday, October 27, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #357

The Saint is an answer and word of the Holy Spirit at the same time. God sends a saint to a world that is in need, a world that faces difficult situations that change from one period to the next, that cries, implores, and lifts its prayer to the Almighty. God sends a saint as His answer; more specifically, the saint is the answer of the Spirit to the needs of the current time.(Holiness)
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 3)

October 26: Give us the grace of detachment from material goods, from our bad habits, and from our own ways, so that we may give witness to the reality that true happiness is found only through attachment to You and Your will, O Lord.
Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day: http://prosanctity.blogspot.com/2014/10/novena-for-november-1st-day-of.html


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Journeying with the Founder Day #356

The Father, Who has called and loved us from eternity, will not abandon us; Christ, Who has redeemed us on the cross loving us unto death, will not abandon us; the Holy Spirit, Who has been diffused in our hearts and was sent to our souls so that we might be instruments of operative love, will certainly not abandon us. (Holiness)
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

October 25: Give us the grace to look upon our brothers and sisters—those near us and those far from us—with Your eyes, Jesus, so that we may see You in them and love You in them.


Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day.
http://prosanctity.blogspot.com/2014/10/novena-for-november-1st-day-of.html

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Journeying with the Founder Day #355

We must have the courage to die to ourselves. As long as we want to make both the old and the new man live together, the old man will always prevail. We must have a spirit of sacrifice and fidelity. Fidelity is our “Amen” lived continuously throughout our lives. We should have the courage to be a continuous, uninterrupted “Amen.” (Holiness)
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Novena for November 1st, The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta


Day One
Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:


October 24: Grant us the grace to allow You, Lord, to become everything for us in our daily lives.
LORD, GRANT US SAINTS


Lord, grant us saints.

Grant us people of God,
people for whom God is everything.
Grant us people
filled with love for you;
people who never look
without seeing you,
never listen
without hearing you.
Grant us people able to rescue the world
from its materialism
by impressing it
with the evidence of your salvation.

Lord, we need saints.

You are the author and the apex of sanctity;
raise saints everywhere - -
among the poor and among the wealthy,
among the untutored and among the learned,
among people of the world
and among those consecrated - -
for the sanctification of the world
through the witness and proclamation of your transcendence.

Help people understand
that holiness is both a gift and a conquest.
Help them understand that to be a Christian
is to be a saint;
for a Christian is a person conformed to God:
a whole, integrated person.

Evoke in people the desire to become
what you have meant them to be,
by walking in integrity
as on a journey toward the dawn,
progressing into the perfect day.
Lord, we need saints because we need salvation.
Lord, grant us saints!

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Journeying with the Founder Day #354

God calls me moment by moment. Every new day—each moment, in fact—is a new birth of the relationship between me and God Who calls me. (Holiness)
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #353

If the Father loves us with a particular love, He wishes to receive a particular love from us. If we are to respond, a vibrant holiness is required. If Christ loves us with a special love—the Gospel passage says it clearly: “He looked at him deeply”—to make us sharers in redemptive love, certainly He produces such love in the one He calls. If the Holy Spirit has called us with predilection to an operative love, He will accomplish His plan, which is holiness.(Holiness)
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #352

Without a doubt holiness is a profoundly demanding commitment; it must bring the balance of love to the Mystical Body. This commitment must make us “experts” in love through a vocation in which we burn with love for the Lord and for our brothers and sisters, rather than being lifeless and dull. The renunciations that bind us to the life of consecration are made voluntarily in order to give ourselves more completely and more radically to this love toward God and others or, if we prefer, to this love towards others and God, in our desire to present ourselves to God with love for Him and others. The consecrated person renounces out of love. (Holiness)


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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #351

The journey of holiness toward the Father must be actualized with a double engine: Christ-Spirit and our efforts that manifest our collaboration. (Holiness)
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Monday, October 20, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #350

The invisible world of God is what really matters because at a pre-established time, unknown to us, the Lord allows the invisible world of love that He has built inside of us to explode. Suddenly we are aware of being at a level of maturity never before supposed, the result of many years of efforts that were not always followed by perceptible success. Then suddenly the underground river of God’s love and grace that was at work in us erupts. (Holiness)
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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #349

It is possible to reach holiness only through the action of the Father Who draws me to Himself; of Christ the Lord, the Word, Who is the way, the truth and the life; and of the Holy Spirit the Sanctifier. However, the human part must be added to this, because without our personal collaboration, holiness cannot be reached. The Gospel expresses it clearly: whoever wants to come after Me must deny himself, take up the cross every day and follow Me (Mt. 16:24). (Holiness)
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #348

We need to see what virtues God wants from us on a natural level and on a revealed level. We find them in God in the Old Testament – patience, forbearance, forgiveness, mercy, the sense of paternity or fatherhood, etc. – and in Christ – meekness, sweetness, "Learn from Me because I am meek and humble of heart" (Mt 11:29), the sense of paternity and maternity, poverty (in the cave and on the Cross), friendship, compassion, the ability to suffer with others, love for the little ones and the sick, unconditional self-giving, the spirit of sacrifice. (Holiness) 
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #347

God is mine and exclusively mine: the Lord thinks of me, He loves me, He takes care of me, He directs me, He accompanies me, and one day He will reward me. Such personal love comes to us through the Sacrament of Baptism that has in itself all the potential of tomorrow and that can thus be defined as the great powder keg of holiness. (Holiness)
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Journeying with the FOunder Day #346

At the moment God calls me, He justifies me; at the moment of my Baptism, He inscribes my spiritual genetic code within me. Therefore the plan of conformation to Christ is a personal plan, not something that is acquired by chance, but that each one brings already written in the soul from the moment of Baptism when God puts in my soul what my abilities and capabilities for tomorrow will be. (Holiness)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #345

All our life is studded with the presence of Christ and the help that He gives us through His sacraments. It is Christ, present in us through His sacraments, Who creates and realizes the plan of holiness; the Holy One sanctifies us through the sacraments in every moment of life. (Holiness)
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #344

Jesus has not called us to sadness. Christ, who has the beatific vision and therefore has the fullness of joy, calls us to joy. “The exaltation of Christ be with you,” and may your joy be full! (Holiness)


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Monday, October 13, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #343

Without the Lord Jesus we can do nothing; the more we are united to Jesus Christ, the more fruit we will bear. The less united we are to Christ, the less fruit we will produce. When we do not bear fruit, it means that we are not with Christ Jesus. (Holiness)
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #342

Christ is the mediator, the builder of a bridge to the Father, “pontem facit, “He who builds the bridge,” the “Pontifex.” Through Christ, mediator and pontiff, we reach the Trinity, the Father, the Spirit, and therefore we reach the Church. This is not a meaningless moral and spiritual insertion, but real and vital as expressed in the fifteenth chapter of John’s Gospel. “I am the true vine and my Father is the vine grower. Every branch that does not bear fruit, He removes, and the branch that produces fruit He prunes so it produces more fruit.” (Holiness)
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #341

It is important to be familiar with the saints, our brothers and sisters who have walked the same roads before us, who have traveled in situations like ours and were able to become holy, perhaps in a hidden life of simplicity, without grand things, without even being noticed. (Holiness)
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #340

The saints are the wealth of the Church. They shape the history of the Church because a saint, moved by the Holy Spirit, is humanity’s prayer to God, and at the same time is the answer of the Holy Spirit to humanity. (Holiness)


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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #339

Love, sacrifice, and prayer for priests are part of the economy of love in the Mystical Body. If I am a saint, I have a greater capacity to intercede for others, and if I am not a saint, something is lacking in the Body of Christ: my merits, my holiness, my participation in the passion of Christ spoken of by St. Paul. “In my body I complete what is lacking in the passion of Christ on behalf of His body, that is, the Church” (Col 1:24). (Holiness)
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #338

The harmony of faith produces love that understands, forgives, and knows how to help. (Holiness)
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #337

The Magisterium of the Church is another “means of holiness” because who of us can trust himself so much as to be certain about truth or error? We see the many changes we ourselves undertook in the past, how much ignorance there is in the world about the faith, and how many terrible deficiencies! How can we venture into the ocean of God’s mind or think that we understand Revelation perfectly when we see that many very intelligent people, some geniuses even, have failed down through the centuries?  Thus we need an attitude of humility toward the Magisterium. (Holiness)
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #336

I become a child of the Father, a brother of Christ, God’s heir, a co-heir with Christ, and therefore I acquire the right to turn to God, in a way like Christ, and to call Him ‘Abba’, sweet Father.  Here is what grace is: a created reality that comes from the Heart of God. The Father gives grace because Christ has gained it for us by dying on the cross, and the Holy Spirit gives it concretely to our souls in order to transform us in Christ.  For this reason we speak of sanctifying grace because it sanctifies us or sets us apart for the holiness of God; makes us similar to Him, detached from evil and sin; and, therefore, gives us moral holiness. (Holiness)
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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #335

Do we love Scripture? Do we deepen our love for it? What part does it have in our lives? We must remember that Scripture has a sacramental strength in the sense that the Word of God, in and of itself, is operative in the soul; it is, thus, a bearer of grace. The Gospel that we proclaim, the other Mass readings, and the Psalms that we recite in the Liturgy of the Hours are realities full of grace. They bring grace to the soul if it [the soul] is open to that grace, to its light, and to the interior impulses that, at times, can be intuitions, sometimes intuitions of sweetness, but that are always actual graces reaching us through Scripture. (Holiness)


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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #334

The Church is Christ living in time. In the Church Christ has deposited all the riches of His Heart, so outside the Church these riches are found only in reduced form, or they are not found at all. The Church could be called the great reservoir of the love of God, the treasury of His Heart, containing the wealth of wisdom and science which constitute the means for holiness, which is the fullness of love. (Holiness)
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Friday, October 3, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #333

The plan of holiness, brought about by Jesus through His message and example, has been given completely to the Church so that the Church could realize or actualize it. The Church, however, is not an abstract entity. This is the Church of which Jesus said, “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church” (Mt 16:18)—that is, the hierarchical Church (Pope, Apostles, bishops, priests) and then all the people of God. Therefore the plan of holiness begun by Jesus must be continued by the Church—all of us, the hierarchy and all of us. (Holiness)
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #332

In His final moment on the cross, Jesus says, “Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit” (Lk 2:46), teaching us to abandon ourselves to the Father and to love our neighbor.


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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Journeying with the Founder Day #331

Jesus served others without considering it or them a burden. The defining ultimate gesture—the washing of the feet—is exceptional as a gesture, but it is certainly not exceptional as an expression of His inner life. Christ was and continues to be the Servant of the Father, that is, He who is completely given and available to the Father for His brothers. Therefore He is the servant of His brothers, too, because He is completely given and available to them. This is true of every brother because when Jesus washed the Apostles’ feet, Judas was there. (Holiness)
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