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