Chaplet of Saint Ignatius

Chaplet of Saint Ignatius
If you knew the treasure of God, in sitting in silence with His Word, you would never speak again...received in prayer on January 25, 2012

Thursday 18 May 2023

What is the Fifth Rule of the GUIDELINES FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS? [313-327] [318] (La réflexion française suit.)

May 13, 2023
excerpt from my spiritual journal
La réflexion française suit.

"MEDITATION (from Prions en église, translated into English)
Acts 16:1-10
In all our projects, it is important to be attentive to the Holy Spirit. God sees the bigger picture and calls us to share the Good News of salvation with all the nations."

Thought of sharing the Lord's word to me on Peace, Wisdom, and Hope.
***
Yesterday, we went for Jack's appointment at the clinic.
As I sat in the waiting room, I realized I had not brought a book or some knitting, nothing to do while waiting at the doctor's office.

I had nothing with me, so I took a look in my purse. There was the Word from the Lord that I had plasticized into a bookmark.

I read it as I sat with Jack.
Got to the bottom and I read, "rec'd from the Lord May 12, 2021..."

I thought it a good thing to share with the group, so now translating into French, with the help of a dear sister in Christ.
Thank you Lord. Amen.
Peace, Wisdom, and Hope
 
Do not worry so about the things of your life.  I am here and I tend to the souls of all.  Keep in your heart only the things I have put before you, tend to these things.  The rest I will take care of.  If I am here to care for the things of your heart, shall I not also be there for the things that burden the hearts of your loved ones?  Do not worry so.  Look to my mother.  She knows the way.  She pondered things in her heart, it is written.  Not with anxiety and worry, but with peace, wisdom, and hope.  Keep these things in your heart, and you will do well.  These three are graces that come from my mother’s heart.  Ask for them, pray for them.  Even now this earth that is in turmoil has need of these things.
 
Peace Wisdom and Hope.
 
Read her Magnificat and be at Peace.  Pray her Hail Mary and have hope.  Trust in me.  The Wisdom that is my Mother shall be with you. I am pleased you have returned to the Rosary Group.  Stay there.  Do not leave.  I will be with you.  Peace Hope and Wisdom will be with you.  Trust in me my child.
 
Now go to your day, take courage, be of good cheer.  The Lord is near and will never abandon or forsake you.  I am your Lord, and you are mine.  Amen.

 
From the journal of Penelope De Cairos Olive
Received from the Lord on May 12, 2021


The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
GUIDELINES FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
[318] Fifth Rule.  The fifth: in time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course to decide rightly.


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Quelle est La cinquième règle des Règles de discernement ?  313 à 327 ; 318

Samedi, le 13 mai, 2023
Un Extrait de mon journal spirituel.

<< MÉDITATION
(Actes 16, 1-10)  Dans tous nos projets, il importe de demeurer à l'écoute de l'Esprit Saint. Dieu voit grand et nous appelle à ouvrir la Bonne Nouvelle du salut à toutes les nations. >>
(Un extrait de Prions en église.)

Je suis inspirée de partager cette Parole du Seigneur s'intitulée :  La paix, la sagesse, et l’espérance.
***
Hier, nous sommes allés à la clinique pour mon mari.
D'ordinaire j'aurais amené avec moi soit un livre ou même mon tricot pour avoir quelque chose à faire en attendant.

Je n'avais rien avec moi alors j'ai regardé dans mon sac à main. Et voilà le signet avec la parole inspirée du Seigneur que j'ai plastifiée il y a quelques années.

Je l'ai lu alors que j'étais assise à côté de mon mari.
À la fin j'ai lu, "reçu du Seigneur le 12 mai 2021."

J'ai eu la pensée que ça sera une bonne chose de partager avec le groupe de prière, alors avec l'aide du'une bonne amie en Jésus, j'ai traduit la parole en français.
Merci Seigneur. Amen.

La paix, la sagesse, et l’espérance
 
Ne t’inquiète pas tant pour les choses de ta vie. Je suis ici et je m’occupe des âmes de tous et toutes. Garde dans ton cœur seulement les choses que j’a placé devant toi, occupe-toi de ces choses. Je m’occupe du reste. Si je suis ici pour m’occuper des choses de ton cœur, ne me soucierai-je pas aussi des choses qui pèsent sur le cœur de tes proches ?  Ne t’inquiète pas tant. Regarde ma mère. Elle connaît le chemin.  Elle repassait ces choses dans son cœur, il est écrit. Pas avec l’anxiété et l’inquiétude, mais avec la paix, la sagesse, et l’espérance. Garde ces choses dans ton cœur, et tu feras bien. Ces trois sont des grâces qui vient du cœur de ma mère. Demande ces grâces, prie pour ces grâces. Même maintenant cette terre qui est en tourmente a besoin de ces grâces.
 
La paix, la sagesse, et l’espérance
 
Lis son Magnificat et sois en paix. Prie son Ave Maria et garde espoir. Crois en moi. La Sagesse qui est ma Mère sera avec toi. Je suis satisfait que tu as rentré au groupe de rosaire. Reste là. Ne pars pas. Je serai avec toi. La paix, l’espérance, et la sagesse sera avec toi. Aie confiance en moi, mon enfant.
 
Va maintenant à ta journée, prends courage. Le Seigneur est proche et ne t’abandonnera jamais. Je suis ton Seigneur, et tu es à moi.
Amen.
 
Un extrait du journal spirituel de Pénélope De Cairos Olive.
Reçu du Seigneur le 12 mai 2021.


Les Exercises Spirituels de Saint Ignace de Loyola.
Règles de discernement.
318  La cinquième règle.  Au temps de la désolation ne jamais faire de changement, mais être ferme et constant dans les résolutions et dans la décision où l'on était le jour qui a précédé cette désolation, ou dans la décision où l'on était lors de la consolation précédente. Car, de même que dans la consolation c'est davantage le bon esprit qui nous guide et nous conseille, de même dans la désolation c'est le mauvais : avec ses conseils, nous ne pouvons prendre le chemin pour réussir.

Monday 15 May 2023

What is the First Point for Making the General Examen? [43] First Point

March 16, 2023
excerpt from my spiritual journal on March 17, 2023

As I prayed the Rosary with my husband this morning, Jack leading us in prayer...

We came to the last decade of our Rosary, where we pray the 5th Mystery of the Luminous Mysteries, and we pray for the Grace of Thanksgiving to God.  And it came to me that on earth there is no other Thanksgiving To God that is greater than this.

At our Mass, our Eucharistic Celebration, we offer on the altar the body and blood of Christ on the altar, the Crucifix is there, we offer in Thanksgiving this sacrifice of God, His Only Begotten Son, and Jesus offering himself up for us,  And God gives us His Son, the Body and Blood of Christ, to us, to consume, that we may be conformed to his Son.

All of our Thanksgivings for all the Lord does for us are important, we should live lives of Thanksgiving. But the Greatest Thanksgiving of all is the Mass, the Eucharistic Celebration, where we offer on the altar, the Priest being Christ himself, the Holy Sacrifice of His Body and Blood, and God returns his Son to us under the appearance of bread and wine, that we become one with Christ in this Sacrifice of Thanksgiving which is the Mass.

Thank you Lord for this beautiful understanding of the Holy Eucharist.

continued May16, 2023
What has come to me today is: The Greatest Gift of Thanksgiving to God...The Holy Eucharist.

We should run to the Eucharist, run to Mass, if you can't, then go online.

This is the Greatest Gift of Thanksgiving we can offer to God.

It is so great that we should continually offer Thanksgiving to God for everything, every thought, every gift, for all comes from above.

Thank you Lord should be our daily word to Him.
Amen.
I am touched to tears with this new understanding.
Thank you Lord for this gift.


[43] METHOD FOR MAKING THE GENERAL EXAMEN

It contains in it five points.

First Point. The first point is to give thanks to God our Lord for the benefits received.

Second Point.  The second, to ask grace to know our sins and cast them out.

Third Point.  The third, to ask account of our soul from the hour that we rose up to the present examen, hour by hour, or period by period; and first as to thoughts, and then as to words, and then as to acts, in the same order as was mentioned in the particular examen.

Fourth Point. The fourth, to ask pardon of God our Lord for the faults.

Fifth Point.  The fifth, to purpose amendment with His grace.

Our Father.

Source:
DRAW ME INTO YOUR FRIENDSHIP
A Literal Translation and A Contemporary Reading of The Spiritual Exercises
David L. Fleming, S.J. 
The Institute of Jesuit Sources, Saint Louis 1996