A Home Retreat In The Holy Spirit

 

Come Holy Spirit and fill my heart with your Spirit of Wonder and Awe.

Grant  that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him.

So that I may be made worthy to appear before the pure eyes of Your Divine Majesty in the Heaven of Heavens, where You live and reign in the unity of the Everblessed Trinity, God, world without end.

 

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen

 

 The Gift of  Fear and Awe of the Lord

Come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Fear and Awe of the Lord.  Amen 

 

The Gift of The Fear of the Lord  corresponds to the Virtue of Hope it is not a servile fear, it is fear only made possible by Love.

A Fear of the loss of the Beloved, a Reverential Fear which moves us to do God's will and avoid sin because of love for God.

 

This Fear only made possible by Love is enriched and deepened by the other Gifts we have reflected on.

It can be learned "come my children, listen to me, I shall teach you the Fear of The Lord it - we learn it by Obedience to the Commandments, Holiness of Life and Knowledge of the Truth.

 

Our reception of God's Gifts draws us ever closer to Him and the closer we draw to Him in love, the greater our fear of loosing Him or offending Him or separetion from Him.

 

Thus the greater our love, the greater our reverance and fear of offending so loving a God and Father, aware as we are of our weakness and frailty.

 

 

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