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A Pauline Centenary Pastoral Tool
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION, n. 9 ***
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: "SAINT PAUL, THE SAINT OF UNIVERSALITY"
World Day of Social Communications (June 1, 2014),
Solemnity of Saint Paul the Apostle (June 30, 2014),
or another suitable date
(+) Jesus Master ...
SONG: "Pan de Vida" (Bob Hurd) or another suitable song
PRAYER
Leader: God our Father, thank you for giving us Saint Paul to be an apostle of your Son Jesus Christ. With his great love and passion for Jesus and the Church, Saint Paul used all the means and became all things to all so that the power of the Gospel can reach all. With zeal he faced the challenges of travel, cultures and imprisonments and beatings; of shipwrecks and sleepless nights, of magic and philosophies. Through all these he steadfastly witnessed to the length, breadth and depth of the mystery of God's saving love and grace in Jesus Christ.
Assembly: In this Pauline Centenary Year, we ask you, O loving Father, that we may continue to know him more, especially his epistles, which are now part of our Scriptures. May we understand the love for you and Jesus and the Church that consumed his life. May we serve you and the Church as he did, tirelessly, relentlessly, faithfully and lovingly.
Leader: At the end, Saint Paul gave his life as a lasting witness to his deep and living faith in Jesus and in his Body, the Church. We pray that we may also deepen our faith and trust in your loving mercy and kindness.
Assembly: We pray that the Pauline Centenary Year may be a year of knowing, understanding and loving Saint Paul because through him we can be sure that we will be led to you, our Father, in heaven.
Leader: We thank Jesus, who showed his mercy and revealed himself to Saint Paul, for giving the apostle to us as our example and intercessor. May Saint Paul continue to intercede for us and for our country that we, too, may turn from sinful ways and be converted, so that we may attain peace in our hearts, in our families, in our country and in the world.
Assembly: We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.
FIRST READING: Rom 1:2-5, 16-17
RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 98 "All the Ends of the Earth"
(cf. Breaking Bread 2014 # 800)
WORDS OF BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE (cf. Abundantes Divitiae n. 64-65)
Saint Paul: the saint of universality.
Admiration of and devotion to Saint Paul, the saint of universality, began especially with the study and meditation on the Letter to the Romans. From then on, his personality, his holiness, his heart, his intimacy with Jesus, his contribution to dogma and morals, the mark he left on the Church's organization, his zeal for all the nations became subjects of meditation. He appeared to him to be truly the Apostle: therefore, every apostle and every apostolate could draw from him.
To Saint Paul, the Family was consecrated; to Saint Paul is also attributed the cure of Primo Maestro.
The Pauline Family has a vast opening onto the whole world in its entire apostolate: study, apostolate, piety, action, editions. The editions are for all categories of people. All the questions and events are judged in the light of the Gospel. The aspirations are those of the Heart of Jesus in the Mass. In the one apostolate of "knowing Jesus Christ" (cf. Jn 17:3), every apostolate and every good work is to be enlightened and sustained. All nations are to be carried in the Pauline Family's heart, and the presence of the Church must be made to be felt in every problem. There must be the spirit of adaptation and understanding for all public and private needs: all worship, law and the union of justice and charity.
ALLELUIA--GOSPEL: Mt 28:16-20
HOMILY and/or PERSONAL REFLECTION
SONG: "Earthen Vessels" (John Foley, SJ) or another suitable song
POPE FRANCIS' MESSAGE FOR WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
Dear brothers and sisters: Today we are living in a world which is growing ever "smaller" and where, as a result, it would seem to be easier for all of us to be neighbors. Development in travel and communications technology are bringing us closer together and making us more connected even as globalization makes us increasingly interdependent. (...)
In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of the unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all. Good communication helps us to grow closer, to know one another better and ultimately to grow in unity. (...)
How, then can communication be at the service of an authentic culture of encounter? What does it mean for us, as disciples of the Lord, to encounter others in the light of the Gospel? ... How can we be "neighborly" in our use of the communications media and in the new environment created by digital technology? ... Communications is really about realizing that we are all human beings, children of God. I like seeing this power of communication as "neighborliness". (...)
Nowadays there is a danger that certain media so condition our responses that we fail to see our real neighbor. It is not enough to be passers-by on the digital highways simply "connected": connections need to grow into true encounters. We cannot live apart closed in on ourselves. We need to love and to be loved. We need tenderness. Media strategies do not ensure beauty, goodness and truth in communication. The world of media also has to be concerned with humanity; it too is called to show tenderness. The digital world can be an environment rich in humanity, a network not of wires but of people. The impartiality of media is merely an appearance; only those who go out of themselves in their communication can become a true point of reference for others. Personal engagement is the basis of the trustworthiness of a communicator. Christian witness, thanks to the internet, can thereby reach the peripheries of human existence. (...)
By means of the internet the Christian message can reach "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). Keeping the doors of our churches open also means keeping them open in the digital environment so that people, whatever their situation in life, can enter, and so that the Gospel can go out to reach everyone. We are called to show that the Church is the home of all. Are we capable of communicating the image of such a Church? Communication is a means of expressing the missionary vocation of the entire Church: today the social networks are one way to experience this call to discover the beauty of faith, the beauty of encountering Christ. In the area of communication too we need a Church capable of bringing warmth and of stirring hearts. (...)
We have to be able to dialogue with the men and women of today; to understand their expectations, doubts and hopes, and to bring them the Gospel, Jesus Christ himself, God incarnate, who died and rose to free us from sin and death. (...)
Let us boldly become citizens of the digital world. The Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ. She needs to be a Church at the side of others, capable of accompanying everyone along the way. The revolution taking place in communication media and in information technologies represents a great and thrilling challenge: may we respond to that challenge with fresh energy and imagination as we seek to share with other the beauty of God.
PERSONAL REFLECTION
PRAYER: "PAULINE OFFERTORY" cf. The Prayers of the Pauline Family, p. 46
SONG: "Only This I Want" (Dan Schutte) or another suitable song
EXAMINATION OF THE HEART & PERSONAL RESOLUTION
PRAYER: From the "CHAPLET OF SAINT PAUL"
Leader: I bless you, Jesus, for the great mercy granted to Saint Paul in changing him from a bold persecutor to an ardent apostle of the Church.
Assembly: And you, great saint, obtain for me a heart docile to grace, conversion from my principal defect and total configuration with Jesus Christ.
Leader: I bless you, Jesus, for having given to Saint Paul a heart so full of love for God and for the Church, and for having saved so many souls through his zeal.
Assembly: And you, our friend, obtain for me an ardent desire to carry out the apostolate of the media of social communication, of prayer, of example, of activity and of word, so that I may merit the reward promised to good apostles.
Leader: Our father and apostle, Saint Paul, you are preacher of truth and doctor of the Gentiles.
Assembly: Intercede for us to God who chose you.
ROSARY: The Glorious Mysteries may be prayed in part or in full.
CONCLUDING PRAYER: "FOR OUR NATION"
cf. The Prayers of the Pauline Family, p. 234
EUCHARISTIC BENEDICTION may follow.
FINAL SONG: "Scio Cui Credidi" or another suitable song
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ARCHIVES: Cf. PDDM website: www.pddm.us and click on the icon "Pauline Centenary Pastoral Tools" for the following back issues of Adoration guides.
1. Adoration Guide for October 2013: Feast of the Divine Master: "JESUS MASTER: He Imparts the Light of Faith"
2. Adoration Guide for November 2013: At the Conclusion of the Year of Faith: "Light of Faith"
3. Adoration Guide for New Year's Eve 2013: "The Word Became Flesh ... The Word Became Bread"
4. Adoration Guide for January 2014: Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul: "Saint Paul's Mistica-Metanoia-Missio Experience"
5. Adoration Guide for February 2014: On the 90th Anniversary of the PDDM Foundation (February 10, 2014): "Jesus Is Your Only Love"
6. Adoration Guide for March 2014: "Rich Because We Are Poor" (Lent 2014)
7. "Lord, Glorify Him In Your Church" (Adoration Guide for the Birthday of Blessed Alberione)
8. "Rogate Dominum Messis ... Pray the Lord of the Harvest"
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