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33 Days to Merciful Love (eBook version)
Documents: 10 Commandments for Small-group Success Download: 33 Days to Merciful Love Retreat – Editable Bulletin Insert This editable, black and white insert is designed to fit on " x 11" paper and is designed to conserve toner for larger printings for parish bulletins. Get your copy of 33 Days to Merciful Love, the stirring sequel to the international sensation, 33 Days to Morning Glory. Using the same day preparation format, 33 Days to Merciful Love journeys with one of the most beloved saints of modern times, St. Therese of Lisieux, and concludes with a . 33 Days To Merciful Love Top results of your surfing 33 Days To Merciful Love Start Download Portable Document Format (PDF) and E-books (Electronic Books) Free Online Rating News / is books that can provide inspiration, insight, knowledge to the reader.
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All rights reserved. Registered as a c 3 non-profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Skip to main content. Marian Fathers. Introduction: 33 Days to Merciful Love. Because on March 1, we will be posting the first seven days of a new day retreat by Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC. You could consecrate on your own, or you could join with thousands around the world who will do so in tandem with the Marians during our Divine Mercy Sunday broadcast on EWTN.
The broadcast begins at noon, Eastern. To do this specific consecration requires obtaining the new book by Fr. But again, in the meantime, beginning March 1, we will be posting on this website the first seven days of the retreat.
If you don't have the book, 33 days to merciful love pdf free download now. To give you a sense of what this consecration is all about, the following is the introduction to Fr. The first friend is Fr. One day, Fr. Chris burst into my office after having just offered Mass.
He looked like he'd just seen a ghost, so I stopped what I was doing and gave him my full attention. At least I don't think so," I replied. During Mass, it hit me like a ton of bricks that we need a consecration to Divine Mercy, and I think you should write it. But if you don't, I will. I think it's really important, Mike. Nothing has ever hit me so strongly. I feel that the Lord really wants it.
Chris' heart. But I didn't feel that he was also speaking to my heart, asking me to write such a book. So, I told Fr. Chris that he'd have to do it, 33 days to merciful love pdf free download. The second friend is Mark Moran, an old buddy from college. In a sense, Mark is one of the most important people in my life because he introduced me to the book that completely changed it.
It happened during my freshman year. I was walking to class, minding my own business, when Mark came up to me, basically shoved a book in my face, and said, "Gaitley, you've gotta read this! Well, that didn't faze him. He kept pestering me. And so, not wanting to be late for class, I took the book. The book is called True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort, and it describes a path to holiness called "Marian consecration" or "a total consecration to Jesus through Mary.
Well, when I saw that claim on the back of the book, I was sold. After all, I figured that only the "quickest and easiest" path could help someone like me to become a saint. So, I followed de Montfort's recommendation and consecrated myself totally to Jesus through Mary, and my life has never been the same. Of course, I'm still no saint, but at least I have hope that it's possible. I hardly heard from Mark after college. But then, one day earlier this year, he called me out of the blue.
While it was great to hear from him, I had to tell him I couldn't talk because I was rushing to meet a book deadline the next day. Mark said, "No problem. But that's why I called. He continued, "Well, I was just praying, and I felt an inspiration to call you, because I know what your next book needs to be.
It's going to be on St. That's all I wanted to tell you. Talk to you later. I thanked Mark and hung up the phone. But before I connect those dots for you, let me introduce a third friend. She's one of the most important people in my life because she saved my priestly vocation and gave me hope. Now, I mentioned earlier that the book True Devotion to Mary had changed my life and given me hope in college because it claimed to offer the quickest and easiest way to become a saint.
Well, shortly after entering the seminary, I began to feel that even the quickest and easiest path was not enough for me, which was a problem. I say that because I didn't want to become a priest unless I had at least some hope of becoming a saintly one. Well, I was losing that hope and felt tempted to give up, 33 days to merciful love pdf free download. About the time the temptations to leave the seminary were the worst, I started reading Story of a Soulthe spiritual autobiography of St, 33 days to merciful love pdf free download.
The only problem was that I also ran into a lot of "thieves of hope" after reading it. She's actually quite big! Hearing such things, I'd think to myself, "Maybe the Little Way is too big for me," and I'd get depressed. So, my spiritual life became something of a roller coaster - high with hope one minute and down with discouragement the next. Alright, so when it came time for me to write my licentiate thesis a big research paper for a degree in theology that most people have never heard ofI decided to take it as an opportunity to get off the roller coaster.
In other words, I diligently searched through nearly all of St. So what did I find? I found hope. Great hope. But before we begin, let me first connect the various dots that have come up as I've introduced you to my three friends. After my friend Mark called and told me that my next book needed to be on the Offering to Merciful Love, I knew what I had to do: Eat some humble pie. In other words, I had to go speak with my friend Fr. Chris and ask him if I could write the book on a Divine Mercy consecration after all.
Thankfully, he was overjoyed to hear of my change of heart and enthusiastically gave me the green light. So, this book truly is a consecration to Divine Mercy - but in the style of St. Specifically, it follows the theology of her Offering to Merciful Love, which is essentially a consecration to Divine Mercy.
But before I get into what her Offering is all about, I should first say something about what a Divine Mercy consecration is.
Divine Mercy Consecration in General. The word "consecration" means to set apart for God. For instance, in the Church, the "consecrated life" refers to those who make vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience for the purpose of serving God according to the charism of a religious community. For example, a Carmelite nun like St. Of course, a personal consecration to Divine Mercy is not the same as making vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Rather, it's a self-offering to God a setting of oneself apart for God that anyone can make - whether the 33 days to merciful love pdf free download is a member of the clergy, consecrated religious, or laity - and they do it for the specific purpose of glorifying God's mercy.
One of the best examples of a personal consecration to Divine Mercy is actually a form of Marian consecration, a form that's taught 33 days to merciful love pdf free download St. Maximilian Kolbe. For Kolbe, Marian consecration means to offer oneself to God through Mary for the specific purpose of becoming an instrument of mercy in Mary's Immaculate hands as she is an instrument of mercy in God's hands.
Maximilian Kolbe - Marian consecration Kolbe-style - is already to make a consecration to Divine Mercy. In other words, it's a setting of oneself apart for God for the purpose of becoming an instrument of his mercy through Mary, the Mother of Mercy.
Over the years, I've come across various devotional prayers labeled "A Consecration to Divine Mercy," and they've been great. But St. In fact, her consecration to Divine Mercy, what she calls her "Offering to Merciful Love," is really the culmination of her whole spiritual teaching on the Little Way, the crowning of her path to holiness, and, I'd even venture to say, 33 days to merciful love pdf free download, the most powerful form of consecration to Divine Mercy.
While Week Three of the retreat will go into much more detail about St. Specifically, she recognized that Jesus' Heart is full of mercy and that he longs to pour out his Merciful Love, especially on sinners. Second, she realized that sinners often close their hearts to the Lord's loving mercy, and their 33 days to merciful love pdf free download of it causes Jesus great suffering.
Third, for the purpose of consoling JesusSt. All of it. And that experience set St. Now, how the Lord gives this amazing gift of mercy, how we can receive it, and what all this means will be the topic of the retreat, which brings us to the next dot to connect. My old friend from college had said to me on the phone, "You need to do for the Offering to Merciful Love of St. Mark was referring to my book 33 days to merciful love pdf free download Days to Morning Glorywhich is an updated and easy-to-use preparation for making a total consecration to Jesus through Mary.
His point was basically that that book helped to make Marian consecration accessible to many more people.
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33 Days to Merciful Love Book Summary: 33 Days to Merciful Love is the stirring sequel to the international sensation, 33 Days to Morning Glory. Using the same day preparation format, 33 Days to Merciful Love journeys with one of the most beloved saints of modern times, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and concludes with a consecration to Divine Mercy. Documents: 10 Commandments for Small-group Success Download: 33 Days to Merciful Love Retreat – Editable Bulletin Insert This editable, black and white insert is designed to fit on " x 11" paper and is designed to conserve toner for larger printings for parish bulletins. 33 Days To Merciful Love Top results of your surfing 33 Days To Merciful Love Start Download Portable Document Format (PDF) and E-books (Electronic Books) Free Online Rating News / is books that can provide inspiration, insight, knowledge to the reader.
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