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In the name of the Father, and of + the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Dear brothers, dear sisters, think of all that you learned on your parents’ knees about life, the difference between what is good and what is bad, and how it is a good thing to love well our brothers and sisters… all the truth that illuminates our thoughts and directs our hearts is infused into us by God our Father and Creator; so that we might resemble Him in all our thoughts, attitudes, words, gestures, and actions.
Dear brothers, dear sisters, take a deep breath… each time we breathe in, we breathe in the very breath of God, and when we breathe out, we return to our Creator God his breath that He gives us out of love; so that we might have his very own life within us.
Dear brothers, dear sisters, look at the holy Body of Jesus on the Cross… contemplate Him… as you contemplate his torment, his agony, his passion and death on the Cross, examine the depths of your heart and spirit… do you not feel compassion for Jesus for all that He accepted to endure out of love for you; feel gratitude for what He has done in offering us the adoption which makes us children of God; feel adoration in front of this Real Presence of Jesus so generous and available under the appearance of Eucharistic Bread, his Body and Blood?
Out of love for the humanity He created, our Father and Creator God sent his Son, the Eternal Word, to give to his people through Moses the Ten Commandments; so that everyone who keeps them may have “well-being… (and) may long remain in the land that the Lord (our) God is giving (us) for all time.” Let us hold in pity and have compassion for the whole of humanity which in our day is making a horrible and terrifying holocaust of millions of innocents from their mother’s womb, and for all those women who all too often are abandoned by their men and their families, but also for all those men who abandon their unique and irreplaceable role as fathers, defenders, protectors, and husbands who cherish their spouse.
Our of love for ourselves whom God has created, let us remember for a few moments all those instances in our life when we let ourselves be overwhelmed by “fear (even though we have) received a spirit of adoption to sonship (and daughterhood by which) we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’” The Most Holy Trinity has great compassion for us who feel so small when facing our fears. At every moment of fear, let us put the fear aside and remember this Presence of the Holy Spirit within us. “Come Holy Spirit, Consoler, and revive in us the love of the Father and hope for eternal life.”
At the moment of the Ascension
of Jesus on the mountain, “they worshipped Him; but some doubted.” We also have doubts from time to
time, and the Most Holy Trinity is fully aware of our struggles; the Father, Jesus his
Son, and the Holy Spirit look upon us and contemplate us with divine love, which is more
intense than the star which is our Sun… this love is given to us in Jesus the
Word of God and Jesus the Holy Eucharist; let us allow this Love of God burn
away in us all that is not worthy of God.
Glory be to the Father, and to +
the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world
without end. Amen.
God, this Most Holy Trinity who created us, who save us in Jesus, and who sanctify us in the Holy Spirit, this God who is the source of the fire which makes the stars burn, this God makes himself for us so discrete, in all tenderness and transparency…. God quietly respects our freedom, all the while hoping that from one moment to the next, from day to day, we will freely choose to live, to behave, and to love as children of God….
Dear brothers, dear sisters, let us contemplate for a few minutes in silence this dynamic, life-giving, and redemptive Presence of the Most Holy Trinity within us. At the end of the time of adoration and contemplation in silence I will begin another “Glory be”.
We
give glory to You, O God: the Father, + the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Now for 4 minutes in
silence we will contemplate and adore the Most Holy Trinity.
Glory be to the Father, and to +
the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world
without end. Amen.
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