Phatmass Advent Novena - Day 5 - Dec 11, 2012

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PHATMASS ADVENT NOVENA

December 7 through December 15, 2012

 

Day 5 - December 11

 

Here comes the Baby Jesus!

 

 

 

THE BABY JESUS IS COMING TO VISIT!

 

 

All PHATMassers with the First Initials of M - O 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.

 

Advent (from Spirit Juice Studios!)

http://vimeo.com/6438274

 

 

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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4...............And He Would Dwell with Them

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1

[and God told them]:  that one day

He would exault them,

And that He would lift them

Up from their lowness /

So that no one

Could mock it anymore;

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:8b-9

 

2

For He would make Himself

Wholly like them /

And He would come to them

And dwell with them;

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:10

 

 

3

And God would be man

And man would be God, /

And He would talk with them

And eat and drink with them;

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:11

 

 

4

And He himself would be

With them continually /

Until the consumation

Of this world

 

....................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:12

 

 

5

When joined, they would rejoice

in eternal song; /

For He was the Head

Of this bride of His

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:13

 

 

6

To whom all the members

Of the just would be joined, /

Who form the body of the bride,

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:14a

 

 

7

He would take her

Tenderly in His arms /

And when they were thus one

He would lift her to the Father

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:14b, 15

 

 

8

Where God's very joy /

Would be her joy

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:16a

 

 

9

For as the Father and the Son

and He who proceeds from them

Live in one another, /
So it would be with the bride:

For, taken wholly into God

She will live the life of God.

 

...................John of the Cross, Romances, 4:16b, 17

 

 

10

"Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one,

and come! for see, the winter is past,

the rains are over and gone. /

... The song of the dove is heard in our land.

Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come!"

 

...................Song of Songs 2:10b, 11-12, 13b

 

 

A Virtue to develop for today: Humility

Though he was in the form of God,

Jesus did not deem equality with God

something to be grasped at.

 

Rather, he emptied himself

and took the form of a slave,

being born in the likeness of men."

 

................................. Philippians 2:6-7

 

 

A practical way to work on these virtues….

* Spend some time meditating on the humility of Mary and Jesus
* People with true humility disappear in the light of God's greatness.

* Find a way to walk humbly with God this day. 

 

 

A FUN VIDEO TO WATCH:

 

Christmas:  St. Francis and the Christmas Crib at Greccio

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78hfhJIW9GM

 

 

Franciscan Advent and Christmas (paste into youtube if it doesn't load... it's being difficult...)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVTc1HAR1xs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Edited December 11, 2012 by AnneLine