Do you give joy to everyone you approach as the angel Gabriel did?

-COMMENT: 'YOU AND i'  book found.

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From: Robert --------
To: Donald ------
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 9:47
Subject: he and i

Dear Father Donald,

 

I have managed to obtain a copy of the above book and i look with excitement to read it,i read the extract from your blog this morning how wonderful is our dear lord so gentle and kind to his children,i hope you and all the brothers are well.

 

God Bless 

Robert.

  

Gabriel and Gabrielle

In the “YOU AND i” book, this morning, the page opened at the words of Gabrielle Bossis about her patron saint, Archangel Gabriel. “Do you give joy to everyone you approach as the angel Gabriel did?

In tune with her happy constitution, she links JOY with Gabriel and Gabrielle.

She had been at her Holy Hour – seems the best time leading to’ hearing’ the Lord

Yesterday we received anonymously from the door a bouquet of a select by Interflora. And it is placed at the ‘golden’ Tabernacle.

  

March 24 - Holy hour. The angel Gabriel's feastday.

"Do you remember this prayer, 'Pray for me so that, like You, ‘I may serve God on earth'?

Is that the way you feet too? Take a good look within yourself. Do you give joy to everyone you approach as the angel Gabriel did? He consoled Daniel, the three children in the fiery furnace, and Zacharias. He filled the heart of the Virgin with divine happiness when he announced the coming of the Saviour.

Have you offered material or moral help to others?

Do you weigh the word you should speak and the one you should withhold? Are you quick to do a favour? Are you full of loving enthusiasm for the glory of God? Do you keep yourself constantly before His face? Singing in your mind, 'Holy, holy, holy'? Ask the Archangel to teach you to sing, to serve, to scatter joy - the joy that is God-Power. But ask often. What keeps you from persisting if you believe? He is like a father. Be thankful. Isn't to believe the greatest happiness of all?

Oh, My little children, what a grace faith is! Could you ever compare yourselves with those who have lost it? You who are rich, give to the poor. Give them all your power to pray and to love; and your longing to love more.

'How can one love more?' you asked the missionary. And he replied, 'By living only to please God: Mirror this often within your heart. Do I live to please God or to please myself? All the distance between heaven

and earth is there, all the distance between Allness and nothingness.”

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March 28 - After Communion.

"When He shall come to judge the living and the dead ... That will be the day of the great judgment. But now is the time of great mercy, and I come to love. Above all, live this present moment:' (My mind was going back to the past or on into the future).

March 30 - In my bedroom.

"My child, ponder more often on the value of the present moment, the danger of going back over the past and the uselessness of gazing into the future. Just live the little moment that you hold in your hands. Simply and lovingly.”

March 30 - Holy hour.

"Take note of your thoughts. Don't you see that they occupy the greatest part of your existence. They belong to an interior realm that you must learn to rule since from them comes what is worthy and unworthy in your days. Keep them constantly in the climate of God, of His glory, His will, His mercy and all the qualities that make Him what He is. Live with these qualities and you will get to know Him better and attach less importance to yourself. You remember ... 'When shall I be perfectly one with You, Lord, and so lost in You that I shall no longer be aware of myself?' It is with thoughts of our oneness that you will discover your duty to give happiness to those I have placed around you. Don't believe in chance, but learn to see the hand of your Father, your Friend – the One who never leaves you – in everything that happens.

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