Adoration and the Most Holy Spirit, a reflection

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                Allowing The Holy Spirit To Guide Us
Trust in the guidance of the One whom I have sent to befriend you, the Holy Spirit, your Advocate. Learn to listen to His gentle leading. The more you follow Him, the more will you understand where and how He is leading you. This is the secret of holiness: to be led by the Holy Spirit in all things. Seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit actively. Call upon Him, for He is, at every moment, available to you. He dwells with Me and with My Father in the sanctuary of your soul. He is your Advocate against the world, the flesh, and the Evil One, the accuser. He is your Advocate with My Father.

It is the Holy Spirit who unites your soul to Mine, your heart to My Heart in such wise that when you pray, it is My own prayer that ascends to the Father as a fragrant incense. The Holy Spirit comes to the aid of your infirmity, for, it is true, you do not know how to pray as you ought. The unseen work of the Holy Spirit is to bring souls into accord with My priestly intercession before the Father in the sanctuary of heaven and in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

When you come to adoration, put aside every anxiety and care of yours, and allow the Holy Spirit gently to unite you to the prayer that rises from My Eucharistic Heart to the Father. Every need of yours is contained in the prayer I offer to My Father. Be at peace. You may want to pray for this thing or for that, and such prayer is good and is pleasing to My Father, but there is another way, a higher way, and that is to yield to the prayer of My Sacred Heart present in the Most Holy Eucharist and in the glory of heaven. I send the Holy Spirit upon you and upon all My priests that they may enter into this priestly intercession of Mine, without forsaking that other form of intercession, which is, as I said, is also pleasing to My Father when it is childlike and full of confidence in

His loving providence.

Intercession is not incompatible with adoration. The soul who adores Me present in the Sacrament of My love will be united to Me in My everlasting intercession before the Face of My Father. My intercession is everlasting even in the glory of eternity because I chose to keep the wounds in My hands and in My feet and in My side. They constitute an uninterrupted pleading for the sake of all: for those in glory that they may go from light to light and from sweetness to sweetness; for those on earth that they may find in My wounds healing, purity, and holiness; and for the souls in purgatory that by the merits of My holy wounds they may be refreshed and delivered.

Now, be silent. Adore Me. Trust Me. I have only begun to show you the path of holiness that I am opening before you. And give thanks to Me, for I have saved you, through a particular intervention of My most holy Mother, from the fate that the Evil One was preparing for you for so long a time.

excerpted from In Sinu Jesu ⎼ When Heart Speaks To Heart The Journal Of A Priest At Prayer pp.51-53
 
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Thanks for sharing. May we be clothed in the power of the Holy Spirit.
 
I would just suggest that the Spirit guides us most saliently in His teaching the Apostles how to teach the bishops how to teach new bishops how to teach us all authoritatively in matters of faith, morals, and Church administration. We allow Him to guide us by doing the most obvious things. Heed the Church. Matthew 18:17, as a counterexample.
 
On a personal level, adoration meant nothing to me until I attended a “Life in the Spirit” seminar at my parish. Our priest laid hands on me and prayed fervently. I had made the conscious decision to willingly accept whatever the Spirit had in mind for me.

Things began to happen. Slowly at first, but then it was unmistakable. More prayer. More scripture reading. The Rosary. The Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Adoration! Some prayer experiences there simply took my breath away.

Supernatural occurrences. Small miracles, of you will. Day and night difference. No looking back. And all of this prepared me for the three cancers that I would end up with.

Come, O Holy Spirit!
 
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