PAX ET BONUM: Fr david Berger

NOVENA to HOLY SPIRIT DAY 5

HE KNOWS EVERYTHING

We reflect with John of the Cross on this 3rd Monday of Advent.

We celebrate the Immaculate Conception.  True greatness grows outside the limelight, in the stillness and quiet.  Life is just as much about what we receive as it is about what we do. 

we continue with our review in preparation to consecrate ourselves to Jesus through Mary.  Today we revisit St Kolbe and his approach to understanding more deeply the gift of Mary's maternity. 

The kingdom of heaven is not just the hope of life to come forever but it is the way we want to be forever.  

WE look for the mountain Isaiah speaks of.  Where is it to be found?  What does Calvary have to do with Bethlehem anyway?

when is enough, enough?  Can we ever say we are done with being patient or forgiveness? 

Why does Jesus insist that a child is the best example f who we are called to be?  What is it about children that reveal to us kingdom living?

We look backwards in order to appreciate the unique actions of God in our life, just as moses prescribes for the Israelites.  Hindsight is fifty fifty that is what is obvious is only sometimes realized when we look back. We live forward, understand backward.

We explore the mountain top experience of Jesus on Tabor and the transfiguration.  What does it mean to say that the entire life of a Christian is lived between Calvary and Tabor?

Don't look gift horse in the mouth especially if the giver is God.  

We look into the life of St John Vianney.   We learn form him the path of true devotion. 

We investigate how God's revelation always seems to be connected to a relationship on our part, it never happens in isolation

We investigate the feast of Martha and what Mary has that Martha doesn't.  We also investigate what real prayer does to us.