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Prayer Service for Vincentian Family Collaboration
 
Come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love, send forth your spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth.
Song
- Veni Sancte Spiritus (Taize)
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 On the day of Pentecost they gathered and received the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 113
Servants of God, praisePraise the name of the LordBless the Lord’s nameNow and always.Praise the Lord’s name Here and in every place,From east to west.The Lord towers above the nations,God’s glory shines over the heavens.Who compares to our God?Who is enthroned so high?The Lord bends down To see heaven and earth,To raise the weak from the dustAnd lift the poor from the mire,To seat them with princesIn the company of their leaders.The childless, no longer alone,Rejoice now in many children.Glory be to the father…
 
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The Holy Spirit has inundated you with his presence and calls you to a generous response.
Psalm 11
I have taken shelter in God,So how can you say to me:“Go, fly like a bird to the hills,For the wicked bend their bows,Lock their arrows on the stringTo shoot the just from the shadows.
 
When the world falls apart,What can the good hope to do?God dwells in his holy temple,The heavens hold God’s throne;The Lord watches the earth,Eyes fixed on all nations,Weighing both righteous and wicked,Rejecting the violent.God sends rain of fire,Allots them a scorching wind.The Lord loves justice,The just will see God’s face.Glory be to the father…
 
Suggested readings for reflection:
 
TO JEAN DE FONTENEIL August 29, 1635: “I am also overwhelmed by the charity you have extended and keep on extending to my poor brother. Because you have done all this for the love of God, and because gratitude for so many kindnesses is beyond our power, I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, to be Himself both your thanks and your reward”. TO JEAN DE FONTENEIL December 7, 1634: “Now, for all that, Monsieur, I thank you most humbly and beg Our Lord Himself to be your thanks and reward and to shed upon you more and more abundantly His graces and blessings. O Monsieur, how my heart is filled with consolation every time the above-mentioned M. de la Salle writes to me about your zeal for the salvation of souls, your diligence in winning them over, the blessing Our Lord is bestowing on you, and the solid virtue you possess! I assure you, Monsieur, all that gives me a joy I cannot express to you and a very special fidelity in asking God to be pleased to continue for you and to increase the same graces within you”.
 
TO ETIENNE BLATIRON February 14, 1648: “The graces God is showering on your labors are the result of His pure mercy and not of our wretched prayers. We are poor people, more liable to turn aside His blessings than to draw them down. I thank His Divine Goodness for the zeal and fidelity He gives your heart and those who are with you. In fact, Monsieur, I am so touched by the use you make of these virtues and of many others that, when the opportunity arises to animate the Saint-Lazare community to its own perfection, I relate to it the examples that yours gives us of this. I tell them of your long labors, despite the weaknesses of some of your men, your patience in di
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culties, your charity and support for one another, the gracious welcome, courtesy, and consideration outsiders find in each of you. So you see, Monsieur, that honey from your hive flows even into this house and serves as food for its children. O Dieu! what a source of consolation for the whole Company, but also what a motive for our little family to humble itself before God and to do ever better and better, since He is pleased to extend and multiply in this way the good it is doing even in places where it is not present!”.
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“May God be pleased to strengthen you and to establish great union among you; for you will be even stronger if you are all closely united.” (VII:473)

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