Phatmass Advent Novena - Day 8 - Dec 14, 2012

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ADVENT NOVENA

December 7 through December 15, 2012

 

Day 8 - December 14

 

Here comes the Baby Jesus!

 

 

 

 

 

THE BABY JESUS IS COMING TO VISIT!

 

 

All PHATMassers with the First Initials of V - Z in their screen names

 

Pray for their intentions!

 

 

A SPIRITUAL VIDEO TO WATCH:

 

Each day you will find a video link to help you pray and enter into the Season more fully. Use them if you find them helpful.

 

 

Today there are two!

 

 

Mary and the Story of the Miracle Birth - Part 2

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fEC2U2Yjno

 

 

Child of the Poor, What Child is this?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEkdr62eVMY

 

 

 

PRAYER TIME:

 

Spend a few moments in prayer just remembering Who is coming…. and thinking about what YOU want/need to do to prepare for Him!

 

 

Reflections on the Incarnation….

 

A poetic rosary for the Advent and Christmas seasons taken from St. John of the Cross'

The Romances - on the Gospel In Principio erat Verbum, (Regarding the Most Blessed Trinity)

and the Holy Scriptures

 

(Collected works of St. John of the Cross, Trans. Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD, ICS Publications, 1991)

 

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7...............I Will Go to Seek My Bride

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1

Now that the time had come

When it would be good to ransom the bride /

Serving under the hard yoke

Of that law which Moses had given her,

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:1, 2a

 

2

The Father, with tender love,

Spoke in this way: /

Now you see, Son, that Your bride

was made in your image,

And so far as she is like You

She will suit You well;

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:2b, 3

 

 

3

Yet she is different, in her flesh,

Which Your simple being does not have /

In perfect love

This law holds.

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:4

 

 

4

That the lover becomes

Like the one he loves; /

For the greater their likeness

the greater their delight.

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:5

 

 

5

Shurely Your bride's delight

Would greatly increase /

Were she to see You like her

In her own flesh.

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:6

 

 

6

My will is Yours,

The Son replied, /

And My glory is

That Your will be Mine.

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:7

 

 

7

This is fitting, Father

What You, the Most High ,say; /

For in this way

Your goodness will be the more seen.

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:8

 

 

8

Your great power will be seen

And Your justice and wisdom.

I will go and tell the world, /

Spreading the word,

Of your beauty and sweetness

And of Your sovreignty

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:9

 

 

9

I will go to seek My bride

And take upon Myself

Her weariness and labors

In which she suffers so;

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:10

 

 

10

And that she may have life

I will die for her, /

And, lifting her out of that deep,

I will restore her to You.

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 7:11

 

 

A Virtue to develop for today: HOPE

Hope transforms our lives by giving us a reaosn to go forward.  It reminds us that what is impossible for us is possible for God.  We move forward on this hope, trusting that God will be with us and that we can believe in His promises.

 

 

A practical way to work on these virtues….

* Find a way to bring a bit of God's hope into the life of another person today.  It does not have to be a big thing -- but a little, unseen act that helps someone to move forward.

 

 

And, because this, too, is part of preparing for the coming of Jesus....

 

A FUN VIDEO TO WATCH:

 

Musical Interruption - Carol of the Bells

 

(Again tonight, the video is acting oddly.. .just cut & paste into a new browser window....)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnMlQNw1M8

 

 

 

 

 

May the Virgin and her Loving Child bless all of us!!!!