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

November 1: Lord, may we recommit ourselves to work as Your instruments in building a world of saints.

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

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

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

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

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #361

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

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

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #360

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

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

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #359

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

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

Journeying with the Founder Day #358

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

Journeying with the Founder Day #358

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #357

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

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

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #356

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

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

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #355

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!

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

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #354

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #353

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #352

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #351

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)

Journeying with the Founder Day #350