A book of prayers to the Holy Face of Jesus

Don't Die With the Music in You!  

10/16/24 

 Don’t forfeit Grace!  

Don’t waste Grace!  

Don’t die with the music in you!  

Don’t forfeit Grace by our sinful acts,  

and failure to receive the sacraments worthily,  

Especially the sacrament of confession and reconciliation.  

It is a cleansing and purification and absolution 

 necessary to receive the sacrament of the mass,   

the fullness of the Eucharist in its power and purity!  

Don’t waste grace by what we fail to do,   

 the righteous acts of charity, prayer, and sacrifice 

 to receive an even more abundant windfall of graces!  

It is in giving we receive the fullness and abundance of God’s grace!  

By our failure to make these acts of self sacrificing love, 

 big or small we waste grace!  

Don’t Die with the music in you!  

God created you in your uniqueness 

and with Spiritual Gifts to be fostered, nurtured, 

and revealed to the world around you!  

Let the fruits of your charisms and gifts manifest 

 into the abundant crop of fruits in which you were created! 

Whether it be a simple smile that lights up a room, 

 or a warm embrace, 

 or the gifts of artistic beauty, 

 or song that give solace or enliven the spirit.   

Nurture your gifts and share them!  Don’t die with the music in you!  Receive the fullness of the graces God so longs to pour out to you, 

 and let it manifest into the fullness 

 of an abundant harvest of love, joy, and peace,  

of unity and harmony and thanksgiving,  

of Truth revealed,  

of God’s Grace manifested in it fullness to you and all you hold dear!  

 

Matthew 5:43-48 (RSV)    

“You have heard that it was said, 

 ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  

 But I say to you, Love your enemies 

and pray for those who persecute you,  

 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; 

 for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, 

and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  

 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? 

 Do not even the tax collectors do the same?   

And if you salute only your brethren, 

what more are you doing than others? 

 Do not even the Gentiles do the same?  

 You, therefore, must be perfect, 

 as your heavenly Father is perfect."

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