Faith and reason
"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth"
Cardinal Mercier's prayer to the Holy Spirit
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Cardinal Mercier's "Prayer to the Holy Spirit" has a promise:



"I am going to reveal to you the secret of sanctity and happiness.  Everyday for five minutes control your imagination and close your ears to all the noises of the world, in order to speak to that Divine Spirit, saying to Him:




O, HOLY SPIRIT, beloved of my soul, I ADORE YOU. ENLIGHTEN me, GUIDE me, STRENGTHEN me, CONSOLE me. TELL ME what I SHOULD DO. GIVE ME your ORDERS. I PROMISE to SUBMIT myself to ALL that YOU DESIRE of me and to ACCEPT ALL that YOU PERMIT to HAPPEN to me. Let me ONLY KNOW YOUR WILL




If you do this your life will flow along happily and serenely and full of consolation, even in the midst of trials.  Grace will be proportioned to the trial, and you will arrive at the gate of merit.  This submission to the Holy Spirit is the secret of sanctity."--- Cardinal Mercier




This is the prayer with which we begin and end every day and every important event in our daily life.




We use it in plural, with "we" instead of "I" and in a slightly different translation (Card. Mercier was Belgian see the article of Wikipedia on him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Mercier ) :




O Holy Spirit, soul of our souls, we adore you.



   Enlighten, guide, strengthen and console us.



  Tell us what we ought to do



  and command us to do it.



  We promise to be submissive in everything



  that you permit to happen to us,



  only show us what is Your will.




Interestingly I have found a writing of Card. Mercier on modernism http://www.cfnews.org/Mercier-Modernism.htm  I post it here as an addition to the discussion earlier on this topic on this blog.




2007-10-18 14:31:35 GMT
Comments (2 total)
Author:Anonymous
Cardinal Mercier in his denounce mentioned the English priest, F. George Tyrrell as one of the proponents of modernism. Tyrrell did write an answer to Cardinal Mercier in 1909 in the following book:

TYRRELL, GEORGE. Medievalism, A Reply to Cardinal Mercier. London, Longmans, Green, 1909, 214pp +ads,

This volume is available in antiquarian boolstores:
http://search.abaa.org/dbp2/book1829_1513.html
It might be interesting to see what he has to say.


--K
2007-10-18 20:27:24 GMT
Author:Anonymous
The prayer of Cardinal Mercier to the Holy Spirit is from this site:
http://lumen2000.com/twh/mercier_prayer.htm
2007-10-18 20:29:30 GMT


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