We share with you an initiative of our sisters of Paray le Monial: a beautiful way to live this Jubilee year with St. Francis de Sales:
It is entitled “Loving the Church with St. Francis de Sales”, we publish every Saturday a text among the most important of his teaching: our Holy Founder has strong words to comfort our world and our Church that need it. And each time we accompany this text with 7 prayer intentions, one for each day of the week, in order to create a community of prayer. This until the end of the year. It is for us to share some treasures of our spirituality.
Do not hesitate to join this prayer community on: https://hozana.org/t/yz3Tu
Saturday
Let us pray: Lord, we want to pray for our Holy Father Francis, our bishops and priests, all those for whom it is difficult today when their word comes to be suspected, challenged by those who whisper and blame: the Virgin Mary has seen so many signs of hostility towards you, her prayer, her presence have comforted you, help us to stand in the pière to her example.
Sunday
Let us pray: True devotion not only does not spoil any kind of vocation or business, but on the contrary it adorns and embellishes them. Lord, guide us on the path of true devotion, then we will “never do anything by force, but everything by love”.
Monday
Let us pray: Every plant bears fruit, and every Christian is called to bear his own, Lord, grant us to know how to look at the gifts you have made to each one, to thank you for the fact that we are so diverse, and to work for us to be united in your Church: “uni-diverse” as Saint Francis de Sales expressed it when he spoke of the universe.
Tuesday
Pray: We recognize your gifts in each of our brethren, grant us, Lord, to rejoice in discovering in them those we do not have; with humility and wisdom, rejoice in the fact that many different sensibilities are building your Church, and thus prepare the many dwellings that you have promised us in the house of the Father.
Wednesday
Let us pray: Wherever we are, we can and must aspire to the perfect life, even and especially if it is always to start again: keep intact in our hearts, Lord, the desire to correspond to the grace that you give us every day.
Thursday
Let us pray: Grant us, Lord, not to fear that we should be known to be Christians, and keep us in the fervor of our first impulse: that we may know how to testify that you, God, are God of the human heart, so that our restless world may turn to you.
Friday
Let us pray: Strengthen us, Lord, if we encounter mockery or contempt when we seek faithfulness to live according to what pleases you, to love our brothers and sisters and serve them in their way to you, do your work in us so that they believe.
I take a moment to meditate on all these things in my heart (cf. Luke 2:19).