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Meditation for Day Eighteen

5/15/2020

 
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Meditation

1)  Place yourself in the presence of God.
2)  Ask for the grace of a deep self-knowledge. “Lord, let me know myself.”
3) Read the text below and then spend a brief period of time reflecting on it.

God always looks at us, even when we sin.  (From St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Way of Salvation) 

When a person wants to do something bad, he seeks to hide, so that his evil is not discovered; and when his sin is discovered he feels great shame. Sin is like slapping God, like spitting in His face. Who, in the presence of the prince, would have the arrogance to violate laws? But the sinner knows that God sees him, and in spite of this he does not stop sinning in the presence his God, making God a witness of his sin.

This is why the life of our Redeemer was so bitter and painful, because He, our beloved Redeemer, had our sins always before his eyes. This is why, especially in the Garden of Gethsemane, he sweated blood and suffered the agony of death, declaring that his sadness was so great that it was enough to take his life. Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem--My soul is sorrowful even unto death (Mk 14:34). What makes him agonize in this way and sweat blood? The sight of our faults.

Ah, my dear Savior! Here is the fool who has despised your holy precepts to your face. Therefore, I am the lost sinner, who deserves hell; but you are my Savior, who has come to take away sins and save the lost.

Mary, my hope, have mercy on me!
 
4) After the time of personal meditation, Pray the Litany of the Holy Spirit

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Marjorie Stanislaw
5/15/2020 07:18:16 am

I just wanted to comment that I am still looking for the Day 17 video. IT doesn't seem to be posted anywhere


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National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes
on the campus of Mount St. Mary's University
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16330 Grotto Road
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
Phone: 301-447-5318


MASS:
Monday–Friday    11:00 AM
​Saturday                   12:00 noon
Sunday (English)   12:00 noon
​Sunday (Español)    2:00 PM

ADORATION:
​Saturday 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
Sunday     10:45 AM–11:45 AM

CONFESSION:
Saturday 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
Sunday     10:45 AM–11:45 PM

FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION:
After 12:00 noon Mass every First Saturday
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