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Requesting prayers for preparation for entering the The Dark Night of the Soul according to the outlined teachings of St. John of the Cross.
 
Wisdom of true conversion

God, I know that Your love can free me from the self-imposed need to force my inclination and emotions into a pattern of love and virtue. Give me grace to strive faithfully, while trusting my efforts into Your care, allowing You to love me and to love others through me as You honour and glorify Yourself in me.
I do not seek to be ‘virtuous’ or ‘exemplary’. I seek to be to be Your living tabernacle.

Let me not be ‘candle’, but part of Your light that dispels all darkness. Let me not be ‘wise’, but absorbed into Your wisdom and truth.
Let me not be ‘peaceful’ or ‘trusting’, but resting faithfully in Your peace and joy.

Let me not be ‘productive of good works’, rather, let me be actively responsive to every facet of Your love for me and for others, as vehicle of Your goodness for them.
I ask this true conversion of You, for “At night my soul longs for You and my spirit in me seeks for You.” [Isaiah 26:9]
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God, how patiently You wait for moments in our lives when we seek Your grace, guidance and sovereignty, while confessing our sin and dependence. You prepare us for these moments, nurturing Your life in our daily events and activities, just as Jesus, through years of ordinary human endeavour, prayerfully prepared for His mission.

How unobtrusively You lead souls who reach out in faith! If we await blinding revelation, we may fail to hear Your quiet invitation in the events and encounters of life. Our kaleidoscopic thoughts, our bustling activity, our pride, our prejudices, our fears and our compromises easily deafen us. You behold the shrinking of our eternal destinies, of our part in Your plan. Have mercy upon us!

You foresee our self-deception with its lack of peace. You observe the complacency that stifles spiritual growth. You see the brevity of our pleasures and satisfactions, knowing our grief, loneliness, or boredom due to reluctance to centre life in God. You see how poor is our motivation, how incomplete is our repentance, how dim is our awareness, how subtle is our self-deception, how entrenched is our tenacity of opinion, prejudices and cherished attachments!

Regardless of how ordinary we are, the events of our lives are sanctified by love. Please convert and recreate us in childlike trust and self-giving. Free our ears truly to hear You, in Your Word, in our hearts, and in other persons. Enlighten us to comprehend with the light of Your truth, no longer through our prejudices. Let Your love flow through us in praise and gratitude to You, and in intercession and loving witness to others.

In fully desiring Your will in our lives, and living the fullness of Your love within ourselves for You and for other persons, we are at last truly alive.

*“Oh my little mother, how I suffered! I could not open my heart to you, and it seemed you no longer knew me!”*As a postulant, Saint Therese was appointed ‘aid’ to her sister Pauline, Sister Agnes of Jesus.]
 
“A spark of pure love is more precious before God, more useful for the soul, and richer in benedictions for the Church than all other works taken together.” (St John of the Cross)
 
Heavenly Father, in faith, I thank You for guiding Wesley in this endeavor. Amen.
 
Heavenly Father, in faith, I thank You for guiding Wesley in this endeavor. Amen.
 
Thank u for your prayers. Are there any who have actual experience and knowledge of the Dark Night? If so I would appreciate any (name removed by moderator)ut or advice.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and
at the hour of our death.
Amen
 
Heavenly Father, in faith, I thank You for guiding Wesley in this endeavor. Amen.
 
Lord, you are the only comfort we seek when we are experiencing the dark night. I believe I have been in the dark night and know this is true. Guide Wesley7 by love as he walks by pure faith in this dark night. Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer.
 
Heavenly Father, in faith, I thank You for guiding Wesley in this endeavor. Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and
at the hour of our death.

Amen
 
Heavenly Father, in faith, I thank You for guiding Wesley in this endeavor. Amen.
 
Wesley7 said:
Requesting prayers for preparation for entering the The Dark Night of the Soul according to the outlined teachings of St. John of the Cross.
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I’m not sure what you are referring to but will pray.

mlz
 
A prayer of your behalf.

Lord Jesus Christ,
I consecrate myself today anew
and without reserve to Your Divine Heart.
I consecrate to You my body with all its senses,
my soul with all its faculties,
my entire being.
I consecrate to You all my thoughts,
words and deeds,
all my sufferings and labours,
all my hopes, consolations and joys.
In particular I consecrate to You
this poor heart of mine
so that it may love only You
and may be consumed as a victim
in the fire of your love.

I place my trust in You without reserve
and I hope for the remission of my sins
through Your infinite mercy.
I place within Your hands all my cares and anxieties.
I promise to love You and to honour You
till the last moment of my life,
and to spread, as much as I can,
devotion to Your most Sacred Heart.

Do with me what You will, my Jesus.
I deserve no other reward except
Your greater glory and Your holy love.
Take this offering of myself
and give me a place within Your Divine Heart forever.

Amen.
 
Heavenly Father, in faith, I thank You for guiding Wesley in this endeavor. Amen.
 
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