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A Pauline Centenary Pastoral Tool
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION, n. 11 ***
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: “CONGREGAVIT NOS IN UNUM”
“The Love of Christ Has Gathered Us Together into One”
For August 20, 2014 or any other suitable date
INTRODUCTION
(+) Jesus Master Way, Truth and Life …
(N.B. The Pauline lamp with ten flames is brought before the Blessed Sacrament.)
SONG: “Ubi Caritas” or “Where Love and Charity Abide” (any version)
or another suitable song
WORDS OF BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE (cf. Abundates Divitiae n. 27, 33-34)
God brought many riches together in the Pauline Family – “infinitely rich he is in grace” (Eph 2:7). Some of these riches seemed to come more as a natural result of events, others more from the lessons given by the enlightened and holy individuals associated with this period of preparation, birth and infancy of the Pauline Family. Still others were more evidently the work of divine action. (…)
“All together one in love of Christ … And whenever we are come together in mind and heart, there is no fear of quarreling among us to drive apart.” There is a close relationship among them, because all of them were born at the tabernacle. Only one spirit reigns: to live Jesus Christ and serve the Church.
SILENT ADORATION
CHRISTOLOGICAL CANTICLE: Ephesians 1:3-10 (Chanted or recited)
Praised be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has bestowed on us in Christ
every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
God chose us in him
before the world began
to be holy
and blameless in his sight.
He predestined us to be his adopted sons through Jesus Christ,
such was his will and pleasure,
that all might praise the glorious favor
he has bestowed on us in his beloved.
In him and through his blood, we have been redeemed
and our sins forgiven,
so immeasurably generous
is God’s favor to us.
God has given us the wisdom
to understand fully the mystery,
the plan he was pleased
to decree in Christ.
A plan to be carried out
in Christ, in the fullness of time,
to bring all things into one in him,
in the heavens and on the earth. Glory …
Part 1
JESUS MASTER-SHEPHERD WAY, TRUTH AND LIFE:
The Unity and Synthesis of the Pauline Family
WORDS OF BLESSED ALBERIONE
The Pope (Leo XIII in the encyclical Tametsi Futura) establishes, or better, interprets and proposes what Jesus Christ has established: the three principles. He who wants to live “in Christo et in Ecclesia” has to be formed in Christ in manners of living; in thoughts; in means of grace and life eternal. He shall be able to affirm, “vivit in me Christus”.
This spirit has entered Pauline life: piety according to Jesus Christ Way, Truth and Life. Study according to Jesus Christ Way, Truth and Life; the apostolate according to Jesus Christ Way, Truth ad Life; religious discipline according to Jesus Christ Way, Truth and Life.
The Pauline Family has received it as a sacred heritage: this knowing that to receive Christ according to the “three necessary principles for salvation” is a manner of life and death for all; and to receive it more fully means being Paulines. (cf. CISP, p. 1220, 1224)
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The Shepherd who is way, truth and life, the Divine Shepherd; oh, this is the spirit of the Pauline Family; the spirit that is different from the body. (cf. Alle Suore di Gesu Buon Pastore 1957, p. 294)
PERSONAL REFLECTION and/or BRIEF HOMILY by a Pauline
CHRISTOLOGICAL CANTICLE: Colossians 1:12-20 (chanted or recited)
Let us give thanks to the Father
for having made you worthy
to share the lot of the saints
in light.
He rescued us from the power of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son.
Through him we have redemption,
the forgiveness of our sins.
He is the image of the invisible God,
the first born of all creatures,
in him everything in heaven and on earth was created,
things visible and invisible.
All were created through him;
all were created for him.
He us before all else that is;
in him everything continues in being.
It is he who is head of the body, the church!
he who is the beginning,
the first born of the dead,
so that primacy may be his in everything.
It pleased God to make absolute fullness reside in him
and, by means of him, to reconcile everything in his person,
both on earth and in the heavens,
making peace through the blood of his cross. Glory …
SONG: “O Via, Vita, Veritas” or another suitable song
(This may be omitted if the Christological canticle is chanted.)
Part 2
PAULINE FAMILY SPIRITUALITY:
To Establish Our Whole Being – Mind, Will, Heart and Body
in Christ Way, Truth and Life
WORDS OF BLESSED ALBERIONE
The Pauline Family has a sole spirituality and that is to live the Gospel in its entirety; to live in the Divine Master inasmuch as he is Way, Truth and Life; and to live the Gospel as his disciple, Saint Paul, understood it. (cf. UPS I, 375)
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The Pauline Family, of which you are a part, is born from the Eucharist the night of 1900, the night between the preceding and the new century… And now the entire Pauline Family is founded on the Eucharist and on the Bible, in the interpretation that the Church gives to it. (cf. Meditazioni alle consecrate secolari, 1958-1967, p. 471)
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Our sanctification is the chosen sanctification in the more perfect way, that which constitutes the Pauline Spirituality: that is, in Jesus Christ Master, Way, Truth and Life. And then, through the devotion to Mary, go up, go up a little every day … Way, Truth and Life: here is the foundation of true holiness. It is precisely the way that we have to live as Paulines. We must arrive at this point: “Mihi vivere Christus est” (Phil 1:21) and “Vivo autem, iam non ego, vivit vero in me Christus” – “It is no longer I that live, but Christ Jesus lives in me” (Gal 2:20). And that is, Jesus in my brain, in my mind; I think like him, and better yet, he thinks in me. And afterwards: that his will takes the place of ours and ours be guided by his will; that is, that we are guided by the will of Jesus Christ. And finally, participate with his life ever more abundantly, that is, with grace. (cf. MCS, p. 412)
PERSONAL REFLECTION and/or BRIEF HOMILY by a Pauline
CHRISTOLOGICAL CANTICLE: Philippians 2:6-11 (chanted or recited)
Though he was in the form of God,
Jesus did not deem equality with God
something to be grasped at.
Rather, he emptied himself,
and took the form of a slave,
being born in the likeness of men.
He was known to be of human estate,
and it was thus that he humbled himself,
obediently accepting even death,
death on a cross!
Because of this,
God highly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
above every other name.
So that at Jesus’ name every knee must bend
in the heavens, on the earth and under the earth,
and every tongue proclaim to the glory of God the Father:
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD! Glory …
SONG: “Only This I Want” (Dan Schutte) or another suitable song
(This may be omitted if the Christological canticle is chanted.)
Part 3
PAULINE FAMILY MISSION:
To Live and to Give Jesus Christ
WORDS OF BLESSED ALBERIONE
The Pauline Family has the mission to make known, to imitate, and to live Jesus Christ inasmuch as he is our Teacher; it will fulfill this privileged mission in a holy way by training people to know, to love and to pray to Mary, our Teacher: dedit orbi Magistrum Jesus, qui est benedictus fructus ventri sui. (cf. UPS IV, 242)
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The Pauline Family is distinguished from the other religious families that have different apostolates … There is the diversity. Are we truly along the spirit of St. Paul? It is precisely this: It is he who points out the Divine Master, and that is, he has taken up the Gospel over which he deeply meditated and then he has adapted it to the world, to the needs of his time and to the needs of the different countries. (cf. Spiritual Exercises preached by Alberione to the FSP in Grottaferrata, 1954, p. 29)
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Let us consider the Pauline Family as a gathering of apostolic souls who offer themselves and commit all their strengths for mankind. We can say at the end of life: I have not spared anything for them. (cf. Op. cit., p. 141)
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I would invite us to reflect how we walk; and to understand well, on the other hand, the Pauline Family and its beautiful path … The Lord lights the lamps, ahead, gradually as we walk and as needed; he does not light them all at once, at the start, when they were not yet needed. He does not waste light, but he always gives it at “opportune times”. (cf. SP, aprile-maggio 1959)
PERSONAL REFLECTION and/or BRIEF HOMILY by a Pauline
CHRISTOLOGICAL CANTICLE: I Timothy 3:16 (chanted or recited)
(R.) Praise the Lord, all you nations.
Christ manifested in the flesh, Christ justified in the Spirit. (R.)
Christ contemplated by the angels, Christ proclaimed by the pagans. (R.)
Christ believed in throughout the world, Christ exalted in glory. (R.)
Glory … (R.)
SONG: “Earthen Vessels” (John Foley, SJ) or another suitable song
(This may be omitted if the Christological canticle is chanted.)
Part 4
PAULINE FAMILY UNITARY PROJECT:
“Ut Unum Sint … That They All Be One …”
WORDS OF BLESSED ALBERIONE
Ut unum sint in the Pauline Family … finally union among Christians … Ut unum sint … “Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.” The union Jesus wants is that of letting one be formed on a most high ideal: like the Father and the Son are one, so among Christians must be lived a unity similar to that among the most holy Persons. (cf. Extraordinary Spiritual Exercises preached by Alberione to FSP, 1961, p. 247)
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Thus the Pauline Family grows and is sanctified. And to think of the day wherein the Family shall be gathered in Paradise, everyone happy, singing the Glory of God for all eternity; and, singing this glory, each shall have eternal happiness, because our eternal happiness is in recognizing and in giving glory to the Most Holy Trinity. (cf. Meditazioni alle consecrate secolari, 1958-1967, p. 408)
PERSONAL REFLECTION and/or BRIEF HOMILY
CHRISTOLOGICAL CANTICLE: Rev 4:11, 5-9, 10, 12 (chanted or recited)
O Lord our God,
you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power.
For you have created all things,
by your will they came to be and were made.
Worthy are you, O Lord,
to receive the scroll and break open its seals.
For you were slain,
with your blood you purchased for God *
– men of every race and tongue, of every people and nation.
You made of them a kingdom, and priests to serve our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power and riches, *
wisdom and strength, honor and glory and praise. Glory …
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. Adoration Guide for the Birthday of Blessed Alberione: “Lord, Glorify Him In Your Church”
8. Adoration Guide for May 2014: “Rogate Dominum Messis … Pray the Lord of the Harvest”
9. Adoration Guide for June 2014: “Saint Paul: The Saint of Universality
10. Adoration Guide for July 2014: “The Pauline Family in Prayer for the Mass Media”
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