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DAY 29
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I
Thirst
OUR
LADY AND THE MC FAMILY
THEME: Her duties – my duties
GRACE: To be able to live in a spirit of trust,
surrender and cheerfulness
PREPARATORY PRAYER: “Come
Blessed Mother, I am Yours.”.”
MEDITATION 24
As previously stated, we offer this suggestion for your personal covenant
wit Our Lady, our “Ephesus Covenant” with the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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EPHESUS
COVENANT
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Moved
by an ardent desire to live in the closest union with you possible in
this life, so as to more surely and fully arrive at union with your Son,
and with you to penetrate the mystery of His Thirst;
I hereby pledge to
live the spirit and terms of the following covenant of consideration as
faithfully and generously as I am able with your help. |
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Her Duties |
My Duties |
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1. Gift of her spirit and heart |
1. Total gift of all I have and am |
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2. Possess, protect & transform me |
2. Total dependence on her |
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3. Inspire, guide, enlighten me |
3. Docile surrender to her spirit |
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4. Share her experience of Jesus’ Thirst |
4. Faithfulness to prayer |
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5. Full responsibility for my sanctification |
5. Absolute trust in her intercession |
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6. Full responsibility for all that befalls me |
6. Accept all as coming from her hand |
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7. Share with me her spirit and virtues |
7. Imitate her spirit |
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8. Provide for all my spiritual and material needs |
8. Constant recourse to her |
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9. Share with me her spiritual fecundity |
9. Apostolic zeal |
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10. Union with her Heart in time and eternity |
10. Remembrance of her presence |
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11. Use me to satiate her Son to the full |
11. "Small things with great love" |
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12. Purify me and my actions; present them to the Lord |
12. Self-denial |
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13. Intercede gift of undivided love |
13. Purity of intention |
PRAYERS:
THE ROSARY
(at
least one decade)
with the
"SITIO"
LITANY
and MOTHER TERESA’S PRAYER
DAY 30
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I
Thirst
OUR
LADY AND THE MC FAMILY
THEME: Her rights – my rights
GRACE: To be able to abandon myself totally to
Jesus.
PREPARATORY PRAYER: “Come
Blessed Mother, I am Yours.”.”
MEDITATION 25
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Her Rights |
My Rights |
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Right to dispose of me, my prayers, merits and energies. |
Right to dispose of her intercession and graces for herself and others.
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Right to total freedom in and around me, to do as she pleases in all
things. |
Right to enter her Heart, to share her interior life, in time and
eternity. |
PRAYERS:
THE ROSARY
(at
least one decade)
with the
"SITIO"
LITANY
and MOTHER TERESA’S PRAYER
DAY 31
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I
Thirst
OUR
LADY AND THE MC FAMILY
THEME: Do whatever He tells you
GRACE: To believe as Our Lady believed and
trust as she trusted.
PREPARATORY PRAYER: “Come
Blessed Mother, I am Yours.”.”
MEDITATION 26
As Israel's covenant was founded on the "great commandment", so our covenant
with Our Lady is based on her one great commandment to us, from which
everything else flows:
"Do whatever He tells you"
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(She encourages us to hear His words of invitation, to prepare our soul for
His coming, she awakens us to His presence, and encourages us to believe in
His Thirst for us).
As on Calvary, so even beforehand at Cana there was a close connection
between Our Lady's presence and the revelation of Jesus' Thirst. It is only
after her intervention with her Son and her encouragement to the stewards,
that Jesus "reveals His glory."
As she intercedes this grace for us with the Lord ("They have no wine"), she
encourages us to believe and heed His invitation, to believe He will work
this miracle of grace for us - to bring us into the mystery of His Thirst:
"Do
whatever He tells you."
PRAYERS:
THE ROSARY
(at
least one decade)
with the
"SITIO"
LITANY
and MOTHER TERESA’S PRAYER
DAY 32
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I
Thirst
OUR
LADY AND THE MC FAMILY
THEME: That He may change our human thirsts into
thirst for God
GRACE: That I may thirst for Jesus as Our Lady
thirsted for Him
PREPARATORY PRAYER: “Come
Blessed Mother, I am Yours.”.”
MEDITATION 27
Jesus' invitation is always the same ‑ to fill the stone water jars (the
"earthen vessels" of our heart), to fill them with the "water" of our human
love.
He wants us to fill our hearts with all the human love that is within us,
and then to "draw it out and bring it to Him" ‑ that He may change our human
thirsts into thirst for God; that He may taste of it to satiate His Thirst
for our love, and finally share it with all those He has invited to the
wedding feast, "the
poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame"
(Lk14.21)
‑ all those in whom He continues the mystery of His Passion and Thirst.
And it is Our Lady who initiates this whole process ‑ she sees and knows our
need, she intercedes the grace and prepares us for it by her one covenant
command: "Do
whatever He will tell you . . ."
because He is going to reveal His Thirst for you, and transform your human
thirst by His grace.
PRAYERS:
THE ROSARY
(at
least one decade)
with the
"SITIO"
LITANY
and MOTHER TERESA’S PRAYER
DAY 33
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I
Thirst
OUR
LADY AND THE MC FAMILY
THEME: He provides us with the unseen grace of
Our Lady’s Presence
GRACE: To step “out of the boat” of my human
weakness to enter into the mystery of Jesus’ Thirst
PREPARATORY PRAYER: “Come
Blessed Mother, I am Yours.”
MEDITATION 28
The Immaculate Heart of Mary, which has become our inheritance as MC's, and
the covenant Jesus has forged between her and us from the Cross, are one of
the greatest gifts and guarantees of His Thirst for us. He invites us to
discover, to satiate, and to proclaim His Thirst in the world ‑ yet we know
all too well our weakness and nothingness and sin, and the seeming
impossibility of answering this sacred call.
Yet as He invited Peter to "walk across the waters” to Him ‑ something
humanly impossible ‑ He provided Peter with the unseen grace to answer that
invitation, "for
nothing is impossible with God."
And as He invites us to "step out of the boat" of our human weakness and,
despite the storm of doubts that assail us, to enter the mystery of His
Thirst and be its witnesses in the Church; He provides us with the unseen
grace of Our Lady's presence, and the hidden strength of our covenant with
her, to enable us to satiate His Thirst to the full.
This is our joy, now and in eternity . . . and we can now clearly see how
she is the cause of that joy.
Let us "take her unto our own" ‑ in Cana, Calvary, and Ephesus. "Disciple,
behold your Mother,"
that together with her you may hear Him say, and repeat to the world,
"I
THIRST..."
PRAYERS:
THE ROSARY
(at
least one decade)
with the
"SITIO"
LITANY
and MOTHER TERESA’S PRAYER
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