#The Surrender Novena

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No matter what happens, good or bad to me, I accept it is God’s will now. The peace when you surrender and let yourself go to God is nothing I can describe.

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Recommended reading:

The Surrender Novena by Father Dolindo Ruotolo.

self-care tip: surrender yourself totally to the will of God

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Father Dolindo Ruotolo Servant of God  1882-1970 The Surrender Novena Apostle

Father Dolindo Ruotolo was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, miracle worker and prophet, who suffered the wounds of Christ. He was called the “mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit.” He was totally dedicated to Mary, Mother of God and the rosary. He was Padre Pio's spiritual director who called him a saint. His life was one of humiliation and inner pain. Our Lord gave him the “Surrender Novena” “O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, You take care of everything.” He offered himself as a victim soul for mankind and was afflicted with many sufferings, including complete paralysis for the last ten years of his life. {website}

[ave-immaculata]

"And when I must lead you on a path different from the one you see, I will prepare you; I will carry you in my arms; I will let you find yourself, like children who have fallen asleep in their mother’s arms, on the other bank of the river. What troubles you and hurts you immensely are your reason, your thoughts and worry, and your desire at all costs to deal with what afflicts you." (From the Surrender Novena)

[doveloveroftheholyspirit1234]

starting the Surrender Novena today and a lot went wrong tonight, however, I know God is testing me and I’m going to force myself to practice radical trust in God and really trying to see the bigger picture. He knows better than me and trying to judge situations and things by my own understanding comes from pride.

[shareyourloveandhope]

When you lose someone

Hi brothers and sisters

I would love to send you some words that are straight from my heart, full of care and compassion. I would love to remind you that even though in the present it's very hard, and your heart is full of pain, it will be alright in the future. That's why you shouldn't give up. There are people who understand your situation, how you feel and how you are dealing with it. You don't have to keep things bottled up. Being silent and not sharing your experience with others isn't what shows the strength. It's good to share your experience, it's easier together. If you have problems with seeking support in others, you can always repost this post or leave a comment, send a private message in which you describe your problems. I will try to give you some encouraging words and advices, fill you with hope, show you support and surround you with care.

However, don't forget about the One, in Whom you can always put your whole hope and trust — Jesus, Holy Spirit and God. Lord Jesus is the Way. To Him, we can surrender all our cares: the positive and the negative ones. He will always listen to them, give protection to you and your loved ones that is the most powerful. He will take all of your sadness and problems, place them in His Holy Heart, and then show them to our Heavenly Father as His requests. His help will ease your hurt and in the hard times will be closer than ever. He will help every loved one of yours and take care of all the problems, even the ones that seem to be not resolvable. There is a beautiful novena: ”The Surrender Novena: Let Jesus Take Care of Everything". It lets us see how Merciful is God's protection, how great is surrendering our cares to the One Who loves us the most and wants the best for our souls. I recommend you to read it every day and remember that God sees every single tear of ours, is always ready to wipe them. We just have to let Him do this. Even if you aren't ready to give Him everything right away, it's good to pray this prayer and show God how our situation looks like, how we feel about it and ask Him for help, for He values this kind of honesty and the desire to build trust in Him. That's when He can work on the solutions more effectively, show you more of His love, care and hope. So wonderful is Psalm 91. Reading it and having faith in leaving our everything in God's Hands, being safe and believing that He will lead us to His Light brings miracles to our lives. For He is the Good Shepherd Who never leaves His sheep, but seeks them everywhere He goes. Even though you're hurt so much, and it's hard to see that, God is always very close to us in the worst moments. Sometimes we feel how He works in our lives, sometimes He works in a very quiet way that we don't feel His presence, we don't see that He walks beside us. That's because He carries us in the hardest moments and protects us under His Wings, takes care of us in the best way. Our requests that we give Him are in His Holy Heart, that's revealed in a precious way in a prayer ”Infant Jesus of Prague Novena Prayer”.

Even though it's hard, remember that God is with your loved one that you lost is now with Lord Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit. Holy Trinity is with this someone and this person spends time with The One, Who created him/her with such a great love. If you miss your close one, you can tell God how you feel about it and pray for him/her. I remind you that you have your Heavenly Father — God Almighty — Who is always with you and never leaves you. In Him, you can find your strength, hope, joy and persistence in every moment of your life, for He listens to you during the day and night. Inside your heart, you also have the Holy Spirit, Who was described by Jesus as the Comforter. He will comfort you and give you strength, lead you straight to Heaven and help to get through the sad moments. Keep in your heart the fact that there is always hope that won't extinguish. I wish you the best.

God bless you brothers and sisters. You can leave your prayer requests, I will pray for you.

Praised be Jesus Christ now and forever. Amen.

[busy-with-little-things]

All Saints' Day Novena: Day 4

Time for my patron saint, Mar Taqla, aka St. Thecla!

Here's an image I painted of her! Do me a favor and don't look at the lion. What did I just say

There isn't very much writing attributed to St. Thecla. She was a friend of St. Paul, and she is called "Equal-to-the-Apostles." The book The Acts of Paul and Thecla is an apocryphal book because it promotes essentially female priesthood, and normally an apocryphal book is an apocryphal book to me, but, like. That's it? Idk I think it's something I'll check out in the future. It's linked below if you are curious.

I relate to St. Thecla in that she is delivered from many trials that would otherwise end in death. I feel like while I am not being persecuted, I get anxiety about my suffering before it even happens. But I've been trying to surrender to God's will before I undergo something, and most of the time, the thing I'm dreading doesn't happen. Not to say that they never will, but rather that I am warmed by the fire without having to step on hot coals. And that must have been something she experienced a lot. Mar Taqla, pray for me not only to be ready to give up comfort but to live in discomfort when I need to.

St. Thecla, pray for us!

[jholie]

The Surrender Novena: Miracles and Healing -Trusting in the Sacred Heart...

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“I perform miracles in proportion to your surrender to me. No person of reason, no thinker, has ever performed miracles, not even among the saints. He does divine works whosoever surrenders to God.”

- Jesus to Fr. Don Dolindo Ruotolo in the Surrender Novena

[trustfallwithgod]

What surrender looks like

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

What our Lord wants flies in the face of normal human inclination and reason. We can only rise to this level of thinking through the grace of God and the help of the Holy Spirit.

We must let go of our problems, stop worrying and trying to resolve them ourselves. We must believe, trust and allow our Lord to rescue us from ourselves and supply our wants, needs and resolve our problems as only He can.

Jesus, You take care of it, should be the first words that come to mind and flows from our lips. After all, we have tried to do things our way and look where it has got us.

Just do as the prayer says, open our hearts and minds in love and close our eyes in trust and ask Jesus to take care of it. He will.

On November 19, 1970 Don (Fr) Dolindo Ruotolo died at the age of 88. Padre Pio once said of this priest from Naples, Italy, The whole of paradise is in your soul. His name “Dolindo” means “Pain” and his life was rich with this pain. As a child, a teenager, a seminarian and a priest, he experienced humiliation, which was the realization of the prophetic words of a bishop who said You will be a martyr, but in your heart, not with your blood.

In his profound humility, he was able to hear the words of God. Even with his hidden life he was one of the greatest prophets of the last century. He wrote to Bishop Hnilica in 1965 that a new John will rise out of Poland with heroic steps to break the chains beyond the boundaries imposed by the communist tyranny. On this postcard, he wrote words of consolation for Poland and all the countries suffering under the communist regime. This prophecy was realized in the papacy of John Paul II.

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Today was so blessed! I originally volunteered for overtime, but since there isn’t much they cancelled. I caught up on some much needed sleep even though I fell asleep with my light on again after Night prayers! 😅

I had enough time to eat breakfast with Morning prayers and headed off to Mass farther away. It was a little Mass again, the priest, me, and four other people. Father prayed for me again, knowing about my vocation. After Mass ended, we spoke concerning details of my vocation that I’ve wanted to tell him in my heart. I wasn’t sure if he would understand the details, but also know that this is the priest that is so kind to me. In fact, it was if the Holy Spirit had been speaking to his own heart, so he asked the very question I was holding in mine about a concern I had! I explained my situation and he in fact, understood! He gave an answer and asked if there was anything I would need at the moment. I asked to teach me about this certain saint, so he offered me a book!! (I’ll return it when I’m down.) I met another person of the parish as Father went to get the book, but they didn’t stay long. That surprised me because of how I used to feel here but now I keep meeting people! I was alone with Jesus for a few minutes before Father returned with the book.

He started to put things away as it was my time to go, but that’s when I gathered the courage to ask him about being my spiritual director. I explained I was given this advice by a few people, but know well that priests are so busy and that I would understand if he would say no, and if there would be anyone he knew who could especially for this particular detail of differences in Rite… He said yes!!! I thanked him and we spoke for a little then it was my time to go so he could lock the little church.

We said goodbyes and I headed to the shrine. I often forget how hot it gets here in the desert so I didn’t stay long. I drove, got a coffee, and drove for a bit without any destination, just to enjoy the scenery and hymns. The drive was so busy and had construction, so I wanted to drive home. Of course, there is a perpetual adoration chapel closer to home!

When I came I have never seen so many people for Adoration! Perhaps 12 people with me. That was such a a joy to see, but then spontaneously, a women in the middle handed out papers to pray the 3 o’clock hour Divine Mercy Chaplet!!! My favorite Chaplet… I never had anyone do such a thing during a little chapel. After that was done, I remembered at the ending of The Sound of Freedom that Jim said now it’s our turn to pass the torch and explain the reality of child human trafficking. My mind immediately came up with a personal Chaplet. It’s basically modeled after the Divine Mercy Chaplet, but it changes one line. Instead of, For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world—- I came up with For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on children and their captives. (I also made a second alternative For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on children and their abusers.) it came out of no where! I’m going to pray it with Mom tonight when she gets home. We have a video about angels to watch.

Wow! And the night isn’t even over yet. God, what else do You have for me?

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Morning:🐈👵🐈‍⬛

As I am reading “He Leadeth Me” Walter Ciszek sharing his experience of total surrender to God through unimaginable circumstances and how through his experience of solitary confinement and relentless interrogations he shares at his lowest point he completely lost sight of God and found himself in total despair. Through Gods grace he shares how his darkness became an experience of blinding light.

In our prayer last week, I hope you were able to have your own experience of surrender. Whether you surrendered your whole life or even a tiny part, there's such an incredible freedom that comes when we're able to let go of our lives and give them over to God. And yet, this surrender can't just be a one-time decision. It's something we wrestle with and recommit to as we go through life with all of its challenges.

As we focus on perseverance as we ask God for the grace of endurance in the face of obstacles. As we open our hearts to God, asking Him to help us to grow in perseverance Jesus can do incredible things with us.

To put it another way, when we are alone with God as it were on the mountain top, but now come down once more into the hubbub, turmoil, and dissension in the world situations and circumstances we face and, somewhat like Moses, the first thing we discovered is the effects of human folly, ignorance, sin, and evil we have an opportunity before us that in seeking and surrendering to God we can become effective participants in His Divine Will and Purpose in our own lives and in the lives of those in our path.

Just as Fr. Ciszek struggled with those around him as he sought to live out God's will.

Their actions initially tested his faith and his commitment of surrender. Situations and circumstances in our lives can also test our faith and commitment to surrender. When we strive to follow God's will, some of our biggest obstacles might be how we respond to the actions of others. In your life right now, are there any particular relationships that make it challenging for you to follow God's will?

As Fr. Ciszek met these struggles, he recognized that it was normal for questions and doubts to arise. When we recognize like Fr. Ciszek it is normal for questions and doubts to arise and recognize that many things can pull us away from remaining focused on our daily commitment to God, we shouldn’t be ashamed of our doubts or questions.Instead, by recognizing them for what Thayer are and recommit ourselves and the situation back to God.

Take a moment now to bring any of your doubts and questions to God, and reaffirm your commitment to God's will.

Many of us will never go through the experience the kinds of trials and suffering Saints endured but many of the lessons they share are similar to lesson our circumstances and situations can teach us about ourselves, others, God and those things we need to surrender and trust God with and in.

In my messages last week, I started sharing Fr.

Dolindo's Surrender Novena to help us entrust ourselves to God. Over the next few days, we'll continue to go through this prayer of surrender. I’ll pick back up on his meditation now and listen to Jesus' words. In it, Jesus tells us:

"How many things I can do, be it a material or a spiritual need, when the soul turns to Me, looks at Me, and says to Me:

'Jesus, You take over', and closes its eyes and rests in Me! You do not receive many graces because you insist on getting them by yourself; but instead you will receive numberless graces, when your prayer is in full reliance on Me.

When we are in pain, and we may pray that He may act, we may unconsciously want Him to act as we believe He should... we do not turn to Him; instead we want Him to submit to our ideas; we become like a sick person who does not ask the doctor for the cure but tells him what the cure is to be. In not wanting to be like that, we pray as He taught us in the Our Father: Hallowed be your name, which means, may You be glorified in this need of mine; Your kingdom come, which means, everything may work toward Your Kingdom in us and in the world; Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, which means, You direct it as it seems best to You for the good of our eternal and temporal life."

As we take a moment to quiet ourselves before God and prepare to surrender our life and the situation and circumstances to Him once again through our prayer in closing we ask Jesus to take over our lives as we repeat this phrase ten times: "O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything."

Let's pray:

"O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything." (10X)

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen!

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Father Dolindo Ruotolo

He promoted the “Surrender Novena” “O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, You take care of everything.”

Father Dolindo Ruotolo was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, miracle worker and prophet, who suffered the wounds of Christ. He was called the “mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit.” He was totally dedicated to Mary, Mother of God and the rosary. He was Padre Pio's spiritual director who called him a saint. His life was one of humiliation and inner pain. Our Lord gave him the “Surrender Novena” “O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, You take care of everything.” He offered himself as a victim soul for mankind and was afflicted with many sufferings, including complete paralysis for the last ten years of his life.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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Ring in the New Year with the Surrender Novena

As the new year approaches, many of us think about resolutions and ways we can improve our lives. But lasting change begins from within. This year, start the year off with a powerful spiritual practice – the Surrender Novena. The Surrender Novena is a 9-day Catholic prayer focused on letting go and giving control to God. It was created by the priest Don Dolindo Ruotolo in the 1940s, but the…

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: The Surrender Novena Prayer Fr. Dolindo.