PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA
Lord Jesus, you are the reason for our hope and your resurrection is proof that those who trust in you will never be disappointed. Teach us to live with a serene and trusting heart, so that by abandoning ourselves fearlessly to your divine Will we may be a sign of hope and faithful witnesses of your presence. Lord, only you have the words of eternal life, only in you can our restless heart rest. May the intercession of Blessed Antonio Rosmini and his example of baptismal life help us to follow you: the light of truth, the fire of charity. Amen.
PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
Lord Jesus,
Eternal Shepherd of your flock, you are among us so that we may have life in abundance: animate our hope, sustain our waiting, nourish our joy!
Jesus, you are for us and with us a pilgrim of hope:
we hope in you and in your promises, we wish to bear witness to you in the world.
Holy Spirit, give again to the Rosminian family sisters and brothers who may live the charism of charity as humble workers in the Church.
From the charism of one – Blessed Antonio Rosmini – the charism of all:
ascribed members and consecrated, religious men and women, priests and Christian families.
Father, grant us to walk in unity and to promote fraternity in our daily life,
because in the one Christ we are one.
Holy Mary of Hope accompany us, pilgrims in hope with you.
Amen.
HOPE IN LOVE Hope is born of love and based on the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross. (Spes non confundit, n. 3)
Prayer intention:
For by living the charism of charity we grow in hope, so that our brothers and sisters may be witnesses of communion, so that we always seek unity in love, so that God’s love in our lives may be hope, so that we may become more and more pilgrims every day in the hope that is Jesus like Blessed Antonio Rosmini.
Word of God:
Who then will be able to separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulations, distresses, persecution, famine, nakedness, perils, the sword? But in all these things we have the overwhelming victory through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor spiritual powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8: 35.37-39)
Word of Blessed Antonio Rosmini: Rejoice in his mercy, and build up an unlimited hope in him. For our hope ought to be boundless – but placed entirely in God, not in ourselves, not in men or human means. Ask God to give you the infinite treasure of this hope in him. And then, encouraged and strengthened in this way, you will not worry about the future or the past. (letters, 6/1/1843)
