Would you please kindly include the following in your community prayers?
There are so many needs with my wonderful work associates and such deep
needs for healings so that all of us can really soar in our work efforts, in
our vocations, in our daily lives. Please, please do what you can in
community prayer for these needs:
For infinite vast oceans of always and ever increasing, unceasing,
unrelenting growth in: absolute uniformity to the most perfect, pristine
will, wisdom, priorities of the most High God - in all areas, in all
matters, at all times - now and forever - together with this same intensity,
depth, pervassiveness of growth in continuously, constantly unceasingly
growing in interior and exterior yielding, docility, submission to your most
perfect, pristine will, ways, wisdom, plans, etc - in all things, at all
times, in all matters -together with this same intensity and
depth,pervassiveness of growth in: ever increasing trustful [surrender,
abandonement]-ever more increasingly letting go and letting God- to divine
providence, to your perfect,pristine will,ways, plans,- 2) for this same
intensity,depth,pervassiveness, quality of growth in: a perfectly,
pristinely unflinching, never failing, all persevering, absolute
steadfastness in, all confidence in / of, a combined heroic and supernatural
degrees of: faith, hope, ever increasing trustful surrender / abandonement
to His divine will, wisdom, ways, plans, prudence, and an ever growing
openness, and a joyfilled receptiveness to His divine mercies, to His divine
forgiveness, to His genuine biblical humility, meekness,
eradications,crucifixtions,mortifications of every fiber and cell of: pride
and ego -now and ever more increasingly forever: all our pre-preinquirers,
pre-inquirers, inquirers, candidates, temp and perm. professed of the past,
present, future - now and until the end of time
esp. for: [initials of a number of wonderful folks desperately in need of
these prayers] LB, A, P, BS, R, CM, TM & family, NG & family, JS & family,
JE & future spouse &family,DE & future spouse and family, JE& RE, LE, LB &
family, all our work associates,friends, neighbors, enemies, clasmates,
close and extended family, all our pre-pre inquirers, preinquirers,
inquirers, candidates, postulants, novices, temp & perm professed [these
groups of the past, present, future]- on our part - more than sufficient:
degrees, depths, quantities, quality, intensity, pervassiveness,
steadfastness, single minded committedness, whole hearted convictedness,
absolute combined heroic and supernatural levels, degrees of all of these
virtues together with more than suff. degrees of charity, chastity, purity,
an unflinching, never failing, all persevering: faith,
hope,trust,charity,genuine biblical humility and meekness, euch. love and
loving service - to more than absolutely guarantee, to absolutely ensure the
fullest, most complete realization of every fiber and cell of our many
prayers for so many wonderful souls, for so many critically important both
interior and exterior transformations, conversions, growth in virtues,
radical progress in so many critical areas -in this very life - now and
forever. Requesting infinite vast oceans of always and ever increasingly
more powerful interventions, intercessions, guidance, directions, help,
assistance, insight, clarity, depth of understanding (from all of the SFO's
from the very beg. of the order, all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, all of the
saints and angles we regularly prayer through and call upon for help - to
assist powerfully with the fullest, most complete, realization of all of
these prayer requests - now and forever. Finally please, please, please
pray for L.B. - that she grow eve rmore increasingly in clarity, sharpness
of sightedness, seeing, thinking, reasoning, understanding so as to see the
mountains of: vanity, pride, ego that will choke off and seriously hamper
her growth as a secular franciscan. L.B. is so incredibly blest by God with
oceans of gifts (even powerful charismatic ones), skills, talents and
intellect she could make incredible contributions to the order, but she must
be ready to do violence to herself (speaking symbolically in terms of dying
to self) and to seriously crucify, mortify every fiber and cell of these
poisons of desiring to be approved, accepted, or to look good in front of
her friends- truly there are mountains of vanity at work in her suppressing
the many, many opportunities for awesome spiritual growth that will be hers-
I just know it. Please help, guide, direct, shape her to grow beyond this
as so many, many Secular Franciscans get caught up in affections,
appreciations for St. Francis yet refuse time and time again to be willing
to crucify the pride and ego that lurk below the surface and choke Francis
out of their lives. This is so sad to see this in the order. Make me
willing to be ready, willing and able and even desirous of laying down my
life, suffering absolutely anything so that our candidates, our
pre-inquirers, our prepreinquirers, our inquirers, our professed (temp and
perm.) will truly, truly undertake such a journey of the "admonitions
outlines by our founder" and crucify, mortify every drop of pride, vanity,
ego, self awareness in their minds, hearts, souls-so that the absolute
fullness of Christ can be given birth and be nurtured at the expense of the
death of the old man within us. Also ever more powerfully equip both SH and
CH to bring the absolute fullness of Francis and Claire to birth and to
fullest harvest to all of our precious work associates, friends, enemies,
classmates, close and extended family, neighbors of the (all of these groups
of the past, present, future) - Please ever more powerfully equip SH and CH
to truly, truly love our wonderful work associates, supervisors, managers,
directors, executives of the past, present and the future and all of these
other wonderful folks listed here- now and throughout eternity- whether nor
not they love or even care for us is not important - our responsibility is
to love them ever more powerfully into the arms of Jesus Christ our Lord and
Savior of the universe.
4) That B.K. would grow increasingly more to realize and please drive, draw
him to repay the money advanced and provided to him for his needs when he
was in dire straits. Convict his mind, heart, soul, attitude, thinking to
these ends.
5) For infinite vast oceans of ever increasingly more deep, pervasive,
thorough, intensive, continuous, on-going, relentless and ever increasing
growth in:
a) our attractions, longings, desires, hungers [all raised to the combined
heroic and supernatural degree, level and maintained there forever] towards
and for all of the areas listed below;
b) truly, truly increasingly embracing, inculcating, appropriating, and
radiantly living the absolute fullness of all of the areas listed below;
c) single minded committedness, whole hearted convictedness, infinite oceans
of boundless energy, zest, zeal, vigor, vitality, enthusiasm, exuberance,
perfect and pristine [joy, joyfulness, joyousness, inner and interior peace
and quietude] in this entire process;
d) truly, truly growing ever more deeply and increasingly in: ever
increasing: faith, hope, trust, charity, chastity, purity, genuine biblical
[humility and meekness], ever increasing Eucharistic love and Eucharistic
loving services to others, self-donation, self-forgetfulness, selflessness,
preoccupations with the social justice, human dignity, salvific needs of
others, ever increasing growth in the ever more deeply thorough, pervasive,
complete and permanent eradications & crucifixtions of every fiber and cell
of ego, pride, self-love, selfishness, self-centeredness, self-will, meism
that poisons our souls, our minds, our hearts
e) ever increasing growth in trustful surrender and abandonement to divine
providence, to His most perfect, pristine will, ways, plans, wisdom - in all
matters, at all times.
The aim to all of the prayers in #5 is absolute uniformity to God's most
perfect will, ways, plans, wisdom - in all matters and at all times - now
and throughout eternity - for CH and SH- both corporately and individually.
Thank you so very much for any prayer support offered to this, Chuck and
Sally
