Saturday in the Sixth Week of Easter

We pray the sixth week of Easter with a morning offering and a meditation from Saint Gregory of Nyssa on how love drives out fear and draws us into real unity. We sit with Christ’s prayer “that they all may be one” and ask to receive the Holy Spirit as the glory that binds the Church together. 
• opening prayers that set a daily rhythm of faith 
• offering our day through the Immaculate Heart of Mary in union with the Mass 
• Saint Gregory of Nyssa on fear transformed into love 
• unity through the one supreme good rather than divided judgments 
• Jesus’ prayer for oneness and the Spirit as the bond of glory 
• spiritual maturity as mastery of passions and purity of heart 
• friendship with Christ linked to obedience and the Paraclete 
• a closing collect to persevere in the paschal mystery 

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Transcript

Opening Invocation And Doxology

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Saturday, in the sixth week of Easter. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. 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.

Morning Offering Through Mary

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O my Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, for the remission of my sins, for the intentions of my family and friends, and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father. Amen.

Love Transforms Fear Into Unity

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From a homily on the Song of Songs by Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Bishop. When love has entirely cast out fear, and fear has been transformed into love, then the unity brought us by our Savior will be fully realized, for all men will be united with one another through their union with the one supreme good. They will possess the perfection ascribed to the dove, according to our interpretation of the text. She is the only child of her mother, her chosen one. Our Lord's words in the Gospel bring out the meaning of this text more clearly. After having conferred all power on his disciples by his blessing, he obtained many other gifts for them by his prayer to the Father. Among these was included the greatest gift of all, which was that they were no longer to be divided in their judgment of what was right and good, for they were all to be united to the one supreme good. As the Apostle says, they were to be bound together with the bonds of peace and the unity that comes from the Holy Spirit. They were to be made one body and one spirit, by the one hope to which they were all called. We shall do better, however, to quote the sacred words of the

Glory As The Spirit’s Gift

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gospel itself. I pray, the Lord says, that they all may be one, that as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so they also may be one in us. Now the bond that creates this unity is glory, that the Holy Spirit is called glory no one can deny if he thinks carefully about the Lord's words. The glory you gave to me, I have given to them. In fact, he gave this glory to his disciples when he said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, although he had always possessed it, even before the world existed, he himself received this glory when he put on human nature. Then, when his human nature had been glorified by the Spirit, the glory of the Spirit was passed on to all his kin, beginning with his disciples. This is why he said, The glory you gave me I have given to them, so that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, I want them to be perfectly one. Whoever has grown from infancy to manhood and attained to spiritual maturity possesses the mastery over his passions and the purity that makes it possible for him to receive the glory of the Spirit. He is that perfect dove upon whom the eyes of the bridegroom rest when he says, One alone is my

Friends Of Christ And The Paraclete

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dove, my perfect one. I no longer call you servants. Instead I call you friends, for you have seen all the things I have done among you. Receive the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, whom the Father will send you. Alleluia. You are my friends if you do what I command you. Receive the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, whom the Father will send you. Alleluia.

Prayer To Hold The Paschal Mystery

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Constantly shape our minds, we pray, O Lord, by the practice of good works, that trying always for what is better, we may strive to hold ever fast to the paschal mystery through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen. Let us praise the Lord and give him thanks. All that I have and all that I am, I give to your hands, Jesus, through the heart of Mary, your blessed mother, amen. Sacred heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Final Devotions And Ways To Join

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