Lenten Bootcamp Day 9 – Wisdom

Lenten Bootcamp Day 9 – Wisdom

DAY 9 – MOTHER UNDEFILED, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF WISDOM!

Becoming “Masters of Mental Prayer.” Each day, during Lent, we will practice “Mental Prayer,” as we reflect on, and desire the greatest gifts, so God may show each one of us a “More Excellent Way” (1 Cor. 12:13). Do your best to find a minimum of 15 minutes each day. By the regular practice of Mental Prayer, you will become more attuned to the “Still Small Voice.”

GUIDE TO MENTAL PRAYER: HERE

GOD’S WORD

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant (Psalm 25:8-10).

HEROES’ WORDS

Dost thou hold wisdom to be anything other than truth, wherein we behold and embrace the supreme good? –St. Augustine

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom. -St. Augustine

‘God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully. -St. Ignatius of Loyola

“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.” 
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux

MEDITATION

The moral life of Christians is sustained by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These are permanent dispositions, which make man docile in following the promptings of the Holy Spirit (CCC 1830).

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They belong in their fullness to Christ, Son of David.109 They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path (Psalm 143:10). “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God” (Romans 8:14,17).

The Gift of Wisdom: The first and highest gifts of the Holy Spirit. It makes the soul responsive to God in the contemplation of divine things. Where faith is a simple knowledge of the articles of Christian belief, wisdom goes on to a certain divine penetration of the truths themselves. Built into wisdom is the element of love, which inspires contemplative reflection on these divine mysteries, rejoices dwelling on them, and directs the mind to judge all things according to their principles (Fr. John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary).

BY THY HOLY AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, OH MARY, DELIVER US FROM EVIL. AMEN – OUR LADY OF AMERICA

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