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Novena for Pentecost
“For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
Novena for Pentecost
Let us listen to Pope Francis speak to us of another mission that the Holy Spirit fulfills within the Church and our communities.
Novena for Pentecost
On the day of Pentecost, the disciples and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, had a unique experience. The Holy Spirit manifests himself in precise and concrete signs, the violent wind, the tongues of fire. He brings newness…
Novena for Pentecost
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God”. Romans 8:26-27.
Novena for Pentecost
“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit”, says the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatians.
Novena for Pentecost
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”. Galatians 5 : 22.
Novena for Pentecost
About the gifts and charisms, the Apostle Paul reminds us that “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. 1Cor 12, 4-5.
Novena for Pentecost
Speaking of the Holy Spirit, Jesus had said to his disciples, « When the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth ». John 16:13.
Novena for Pentecost
We are preparing to celebrate the great feast of Pentecost. With Pope Francis, starting from the excerpts of his book « Living with the Holy Spirit », let us renew the welcome of the Holy Spirit in our lives. With Eugénie Caps, lets us ask for the grace of his coming into our hearts for a deep and fruitful change, in an ever greater docility to his sanctifying action.
Let us listen to Him, the Spirit is here
Here we are, on the eve or our 16th General Chapter. Our year of preparation and prayer for the Chapter ends with the celebration of Pentecost. Received every month, the Animation Guide helped us, through the words of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-16, to encounter more the Jesus of the Good News.
9th day – Thanksgiving and abandonment to God Trinity
Jesus, sweet and humble of heart make my heart like Yours. Holy Trinity, one and the same God, I adore you, I love you and I thank you.
8th day – An intense inner life
For Sister Eugénie Caps, the missionary vocation of the Spiritan Sister, placed under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the protection of the Virgin Mary, can only lead to the total abandonment of her life to God, to a will to strive towards perfection, even holiness.
7th day – The Virgin Mary, a model to follow
If the Spirit is the inspirer of the missionary apostolate, the Virgin Mary holds the place of mediator of all graces, a model to be followed for the Missionary Sisters.
6th day – Personal experience with Christ, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
The Writings of Sister Eugénie Caps reveal that a missionary vocation cannot exist without a personal experience with Christ.
5th day – A path to holiness
The total self-giving of which Sister Eugénie Caps speaks, calls for a decentering of oneself. It is a path to holiness.
Fourth day – Walking in the footsteps of Jesus
To walk in the footsteps of Jesus, is to give oneself entirely to Him, and in every circumstance, both in moments of joy and of suffering.
Call for Charity
Sister Marie Nassif, Franco-Lebanese, Spiritan Sister, in mission at Nogent-sur-Marne, France, makes a vibrant appeal to charity through a poetic and challenging style.
Sent by Jesus, at the service of the Mission
Our missionary identity is rooted in the missionary identity of Jesus. We are sent, as Jesus was sent. Let us look at what this means in terms of relationship to the One who sends us.