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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Novena to St. Maximilian Kolbe 2014, Day 1


Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of the Gospel!

From the teaching of the Holy Father (Evangelii Gaudium):
The word of God constantly shows us how God challenges those who believe in him “to go forth”… all of us are asked to obey his call to go forth from our own comfort zone in order to reach all the “peripheries” in need of the light of the Gospel. (EG n. 20)

God save us from a worldly Church with superficial spiritual and pastoral trappings! This stifling worldliness can only be healed by breathing in the pure air of the Holy Spirit who frees us from being self-centered - cloaked in an outward religiosity bereft of God. (EG n. 97)

From the Writings of St. Maximilian:
Jesus has been calling you with great love from the beginning of your life.
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” [Mt 16, 24]: this is the essential condition.
In following Jesus, you must stand out for your constant and ongoing self-denial. (KW 962)

Silence
St. Maximilian, in your life, nothing and no one ever robbed you of the Gospel.


-      What is it that robs me of the Gospel in my life, in my community?

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