Posted on 07/01/2010 9:03:55 AM PDT by Mad Dawg
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being wronged, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected, Deliver me, Jesus.
That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease,Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be chosen and I set aside, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be praised and I unnoticed, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be preferred to me in everything, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may become holier than I,
provided that I may become
as holy as I should, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
Dominicus Gabriel Mariae
O most gracious Lord Jesus:
To redeem an undeserving humanity
You gave up everything you had.
In your mercy, grant us the grace
of despising all things but you
and your love
That we may know the joy
you brought to us
through your dolorous Passion
and Death,
Who live and reign in might and bliss
with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
One God, in everlasting glory.
Amen to your prayer and here’s one for you:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2558704/posts
See post #26.
Wow. That’s like the hydrogen bomb version of St. Patrick’s breastplate. I’m going to figure out a way to get it into my devotions. My prayer time is kind of packed right now and will be until Aug15, but maybe starting Aug 16 ....
Thanks for that.
I’m very glad to hear your good news. Eyesight is precious.
Sunday blessings, fearless leader. :)
Thank you.
After Mass and the canonical Sunday nap, I rode my sooper-scooter to our DRE’s house to celebrate his firstborn’s first birthday. Very nice, but even at 60 mph it was HOT out there!
Sissies and Bubbas in the Lord:
July speeds to its close. May God make speed to save us from the silliness of our vanities.
“May God make speed to save us from the silliness of our vanities.”
AMEN!
Checking in for Remedial Litany 101.
Prayers for a full recovery.
A cloudy good morning to all.
The tornado in the Bronx reminds me of God speaking to Job from the whirlwind.
And that reminds me that one fruit of humility may be that we can make a prayer pleasing to God, as Job’s querulous prayers seem to have been.
After all his suffering, and confronted with the “explaining away” offered by the alleged comforters, there cannot have been very much vanity or pretense left in that heart.
Maybe to pray for humility is to pray for whatever God will send to give us that gift. May He therefore send us the courage to pray honestly to Him, knowing that our sin and shame is already laid bare before Him.
Psalm 139:
O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me!
Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue [or typed on my keyboard], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether...
Thanks to both of you for giving me these thoughts and holy words for this day.
I was much in need of them.
I have to keep reminding myself that God can handle my world (and His) without my consultation.
Amen to the prayer (noxena...)
;-)
It's easiest to 'see' God when we're broken - that can be a rough road...
Yes. A rough road. I love the line in ps 84 about going through a desolate valley and finding that it’s full of Springs.
Maybe the other side of that is that when God starts to drag us back to Him, we experience the roughness of the road of sin, which appeared smooth when we were taking it in the wrong direction.
Just an idle speculation.
Good morning! I lost 2.4 lbs. in the past week. Unfortunately, I stopped doing this prayer the last few days, and there went my mellowed-out humility.
If God didn’t smack me upside the head with a shoe pretty often, I’d be just impossible!
Good day to you, too! It's cloudy here as well. We are saving a lot of money by not having to use our in-ground sprinkling system much this summer, so I like the rain.
I was thinking about your comment regarding our Lord already knowing all our deepest, darkest secrets. There is certainly nothing hidden from him. I think about, then, why does he desire, command, that we confess our sins both to him and to each other? I believe the answer is in the very word used for confess. It is to "name it as He names it". It is admitting our faults, our deeds, our acts of commission as well as omission, without any rationalization or justification, stripping away the reasons, the excuses. "Coming clean" in other words.
He already knows the truth, he has the "goods" on us anyway, so this is for our own benefit. By this action we are then promised forgiveness, cleansing, and restoration of fellowship with him. When we confess to others - those we have wronged - we are admitting our own failure towards them and asking them for their forgiveness. We are also asking others to come along side us to help us stay faithful and true to our calling in Christ. There is accountability when we are honest and open with each other.
God has indeed given us this as a "gift". We need to see it as such and appreciate all the ways he intends to bless us by it.
Sometimes we have to be flat on our backs before we can look up.
Allow me to work with the controversial example of confessing to an offishul holy d00d.Please finesse the controversial aspect.
I strut around all full of being forgiven, all full of God's love not only being more important than my sin but the most important thing of all.
Right up until I have to put my money where my mouth is and demonstrate that I base my self-concept not on me or on what others think of me but on what God has done for me.
And all of a sudden it's “Um yea, but I have these pencils to sharpen. Let me get back to you on that.”
TO get all Catholicked (unless you're going to be baptized) you have to make a confession. So a friend whom I was sponsoring just asked me to sit with here until it was her turn. So of course I did, and maybe 20 minutes later (it was a “whole life, hitting the low spots” type of deal) she came out and said, “THAT is the best weight loss program ever!”
But it's not any magic, really. It's just perzackly what you said. It's the weight of sin, doubled or trebled by the weight of vanity. Just take that bracing first step into the ice-cold pool — and it turns out to be a nice warm bath!
Is God great or WHAT?
PS: LOVE the insight on the word “confess.”
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