Recommended Reading: "He and I"

 It is interesting to find the widespread of "He and I" Websites.

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Recommended Reading: "He and I"

A photo of Gabrielle Bossis and the book compiling

her communications with Jesus

I was at a church meeting the other night, when the conversation briefly turned to a certain book that one of the women had been reading little by little, on a daily basis; it was a book filled with alleged messages from Jesus to two women. After describing the book to me, I was immediately reminded of a similar book that I often read over and over, for the past 18 years, especially when I'm in need of spiritual encouragement; that special book is called, "He and I". After the meeting, I went home and took up my copy and slowly browsed over some of its passages... as always, my heart was filled with God's peace.

For those not familiar with this gem of a book, He and I is actually the published journal of a pious, aristocratic French woman named Gabrielle Bossis. Gabrielle was famous in her time and in her home country for having been a successful playwrite and stage actress with a comedic flair. In her latter years she reportedly heard the voice of Christ speaking to her regularly, especially during her prayer time and devotions; it was an intimate relationship, which lasted until shortly before her death in 1950.

While still living, Gabrielle had maintained a strict discretion about her experiences, and although her spiritual director had begun to publish the words she heard from Jesus, her identity was kept a secret. He and I became a huge spiritual success and continues to touch hearts up to the present day. Below are just a few quotes from the messages spoken by Christ to Gabrielle - 'pearls' from the book that I'd like to share with you...

'I am no longer on earth, so take my place.'

(March 10, 1937)

'Don't get the idea that a Saint is a Saint at every moment.  But there is

always my grace...  You must aim at perfection. But the perfection of your nature.

This is the way you will please me.'

(April 9, 1937)

'Enjoy me.  Give yourself a rest from saying your prayers so you may enjoy my Love.' 

(After Gabrielle received Holy Communion - April 28, 1939)

'When you ask, believe that I am good enough to answer you,

otherwise you will deprive me of the joy of giving.' 

(June 3, 1939)

'Thank me spontaneously as you would thank someone very dear to you.

I'm not just a messenger of suffering as so many imagine.  I am also the giver of

joys and I love your thanks, my little children; don't deprive me of this.'

(After Gabrielle experienced a great joy - November 25,  1940)

'... I am the friend who does good in the home and who sometimes

slips away before being recognized and thanked.'

(September 14, 1944)

'If you suffer, I am there to suffer with you.  And this is my cross again -

this suffering in your suffering.  Share it with me, for everything depends on oneness.

And if you believe in my Love, suffering will be sweet to you.  It will seem like

a little return for what I have given you...'

(September 28, 1944)

'... The weakness of your nature causes you to fall, and it's the humble effort

you make to get up and go on, the effort to please me that charms your Beloved.

And this is a joy, a joy for God.  Isn't that strange?  Later on you will see.

Later on you will understand.  Believe in that "later on".'

(While Gabrielle was making a Holy Hour - September 6, 1945)

'Pray.  Show an example of heartwarming love.  You remember

how good my mother and St. Joseph were to all those who received them

during their travels.  Long afterward people remembered their visit.

They left a wake of blessings all along their way.'

(September 12, 1945)

'Remember...  I traveled all your roads.'

(While Gabrielle was experiencing a moment of sadness - February 13, 1947)

'But each day is a first creation.  Not one is like another.

I never stop creating.  And it is all for all of you.  If I didn't hold you up, you

would cease to exist.  Will you love me enough to thank me for it?'

(While Gabrielle was enjoying the changing shapes of clouds - September 30, 1948)

'My child, ponder more often on the value of the present moment,

the danger of going back over the past and the uselessness of gazing into the future.

Just live the little moment you hold in your hands.  Simply and lovingly.'

(March 30, 1949)

If you enjoyed reading the above quotes, then I highly recommend you get the book - He and I will enrich your soul for the rest of your life, if you read it with the eyes of faith.  God bless!

Peter @ Guadalupe House at 11:11 PM

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The Houses of Adoration, Marie-Benoite Angot.

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Second from left: foundress Marie Angot

The Houses of AdorationMarie-Benoite Angot.  (www.lesmaisonsdadoration.com) 
was founded in 1989 in France by Marie-Benoite Angot. 
This spirituality offers a way for lay people to consecrate themselves through Mary to the Living Person of Christ in the Eucharist, consecrating the world in preparation for His return in Glory. 
Houses of Adoration received final recognition by the Pontifical Council for the Laity in Rome on April 5, 2012, Holy Thursday, as a private international association of the faithful. 
Their vocation is to be the leaven in daily life like the yeast in the dough, in every country and in every situation. 
The spirituality is to spread throughout the world bringing the Living Love of Jesus-Eucharist to the world, through a true ministry of visitation carried out in the simple action of everyday life: the spirituality if that of Our Daily Bread. 
In imitation of the Virgin Mary, in her house of Nazareth, the souls of adoration never let a day pass without gazing on the Living Jesus with love in adoration. Responding to the call of Vatican II, they offer themselves as churches based in the home, to become "true domestic sanctuaries of the church." 
Priests known as "Missionaries of the Eucharist" adopt the same spirituality as the lay members, sharing their aims and helping them to live out their vocation and mission. 
The direction of the association is carried out by lay country delegates and diocesan delegates. 
The association is under the guidance of the Pontifical Council for the Laity in Rome. 
For additional information, please contact 
Ms. Angot, 31 rue du Sommerard, 75005 Paris, France 
or Ms. Connie Wells in the U.S. at cgwells31@gmail.com.    

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Books of Marie Angot on adoration

  

                                                                                 

WEBSITE  

http://www.lesmaisonsdadoration.com 

Trans:  Livres

·         Le mystère de l’amour vivant

·         Les Maisons d’adoration

·         Adorer avec Marie

·         La vie d’adoration

·         Le Christ, eucharistie éternelle

Lettres

·         Jeudi Saint, Jour de Lumière

·         La joie de l'Eglise

·         La Montée à Béthléem

·         La Maison de Nazareth, racine de l'Eglise

Documents

·         Benoit XVI à Lourdes

·         L’Eucharistie au cœur de notre vie

·         L'Eglise vit du Christ Eucharistique

·         Prière des délégués

Adoration in the Home Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey

Thank you, Fr. Mark. for this Post.
I am searching for the lady who set up Adoration in the Home, France.

Adoration at Home

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Father Mark

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Judging from some recent comments, I think it may be helpful to say something about the practice of Eucharistic adoration in the home for those who, for one reason or another, cannot go to a church or chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. The zealous apostle of this kind of adoration in the home was a priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of Perpetual Adoration, Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey (1875-1960).Father Mateo wrote:

Not every one is able to make the hour of Eucharistic Adoration in the church, particularly at night. Must they be deprived, then, of the honor and privilege of consoling the Divine Prisoner, alone and forsaken in so many tabernacles? By no means! In the sanctuary of their homes, let them prostrate themselves in spirit before the tabernacle, and, in union with the Priests who at that moment, in some part of the world, are offering the Sacrifice of Calvary to the Trinity, let them adore, praise, petition and atone in the name of their own and other families who offend and sadden the Sacred Heart by their daily denial of His rights as King.

It is helpful to make one's adoration at home in front of a blessed image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Holy Face. There are many people suffering from chronic illnesses, who are unable to go to a church where the Blessed Sacrament is present. They are not deprived of the graces flowing from Eucharistic adoration, and their prayer, even if it is made from a sickbed or a chair, is all the more precious in the sight of Our Lord, insofar as they unite it with patience to His own sufferings. One might say something like this;

Lord Jesus Christ,
my desire and the intention of my heart
is to pray before Thy holy image as if I were in Thy Eucharistic presence.
Transport my soul before the tabernacle where
Thou art most forsaken at this hour,
and there let me offer Thee my desire to adore Thee,
and my love,
in a spirit of reparation.

Or, like this:

Receive this time before Thee
as an act of adoration and reparation directed to Thee
in the Most Blessed Sacrament,
especially in that tabernacle on earth where Thou art most forsaken.
Make me, especially for the sake of Thy priests and for their sanctification,
a faithful adorer of Thy Eucharistic Face
and of Thy Open Heart hidden in the Sacrament of Thy Love.
Trusting that faith, hope, and love abolish every distance
and transport the soul straightway to the object of its desire,
I will adore Thee now with the same sentiments
of thanksgiving, confidence, and pleading love
that I would have,
were I prostrate before the Sacrament of Thy Body and Blood
hidden in the tabernacle, or exposed to my gaze upon the altar.

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• Holy Eucharist,
 
• Thursdays of Adoration and Reparation for Priests

Solemnity of All Saints - Pray for the Poor Souls in Purgatory from November 1 to the 8th.

November: Month of the Holy Souls

Pope's Intention

NOVEMBER

Ministers of the Gospel. That bishops, priests, and all ministers of the Gospel may bear the courageous witness of fidelity to the crucified and risen Lord. Pilgrim Church. That the pilgrim Church on earth may shine as a light to the nations.

Ordinary Time: November 1st

Solemnity of All Saints 

It so happens that the Saints featured on the Gregory Palamas' Night Office  Readings 

TUESDAY 30 October 2012 Year II

First Reading Wisdom 3:1-19

                                                                 Responsory           Wis 3:6.7.9

The Lord tested his chosen ones like gold tested by fire; he has received them as a sacrificial offering; at the time of his visitation men shall see, + for grace and mercy shall be given to his chosen ones.

V. Those who trust in him shall understand truth, and the faithful shall live with him in love. + For grace and ...

Second Reading

From a homily by Gregory Palamas (Hom. 25: PG 151,322-323)

To all his people God will give power and strength

God is truly wonderful in his saints. And so when the psalmist prophesies: God is wonderful in his saints, he adds: he will give power and strength to his people. Think over in your minds the meaning of the prophetic words: to all his people God will give power and strength, for God is no respecter of persons, but it is only in his saints that he is seen in wonder.

From heaven God showers upon all his abundant help; he is a fount of salvation and light which flows eternally with mercy and goodness. But not everyone can profit by his grace and power in the exercise and perfection of virtue or even in the display of miracles; it is only those who have made the good choice and whose actions show their faith and love of God. They have finally turned aside from their evil ways, and clinging securely to God's commandments they keep their mental vision fixed on Christ the sun of righteousness. Not only does Christ stretch out from heaven an unseen hand of help to those engaged in the struggle, but still today we can hear his voice exhorting us in the words of the gospel:

Those who acknowledge me before the world I shall acknowledge before my Father in heaven. And so you see how we cannot openly profess our faith in Christ without his powerful help. Nor will our Lord Jesus Christ speak out for us in the world to come, and unite and reconcile us with his heavenly Father, unless we ourselves give him the chance to do so.

For all the saints, as servants of God, have openly professed their faith during this life on earth and in the presence of their fellow mortals, and what is more for just a short moment in this age of time and before only a small number of people. But our Lord Jesus Christ, as God and Lord of heaven and earth, will speak out for us in the eternal life of the world to come in the presence of God the Father, surrounded by angels and archangels and all the heavenly powers, and with the whole human race present from Adam to the end of the world. For all will rise and stand at the judgment-seat of Christ. And at that time, in the presence and sight of all, he will praise and glorify and give the crown of victory to those who have shown their faith in him to the end.

Responsory                                      In 8:12; Rom 13:12

I am the light of the world. + Anyone who follows me will not walk

in darkness, but will have the light of life.

V. Let us cast off the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. +Anyone who ... 

COMMENT: Heart of the World, Hans Urs von Balthasar

Cambridge Companion to
Hans Urs von Balthasar

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Donald
To: William J W . . .
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 21:47
Subject: Fw: [Blog] HE AND i, Gabrielle B.- "Exchange of Hearts", 1940 (GB found)

Monday, 17 September 2012

HE AND i, GB. 1940 November 4 Nantes Recreation time

Dear William,

Many thanks.

This is so true  an animated conversation. in this very special revolving over and over a paragraph.

Your very reminding opens up on going light. 

Likewise, my most recent previous 'blog' is even less than the countless turning over in mind, heart, and love.

Von Balthaser, e.g., is brilliant, enlightening and speaks in his voice, and entirely different is the communion of  Gabrielle, the contrast of  the theologian's script and the simplicity of HIM.

Any diagnosis of the gifts of the Spirit leaves adrift adrift in the theological logics on the waves.

....e.g.........

Cambridge Companion Article 

*12 The theo-logic

Aidan Nichols

Introduction

When Hans Urs von Balthasar set out in 1947 to write what wouldlater become in 1985 the first volume of the Theologik, he was already convinced that Jesus Christ was the heart of the world. Historically, the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus), to which he belonged at the time, had often been

linked with devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. But long before the Second Vatican Council this devotion had come under attack for its lachrymose sentimentality. So in Heart of the World (first published in German in 1945), Balthasar had tried to give more tough-minded consideration than was usual to that spiritual theme. Moreover, he realized that one could not flesh out the claim that Jesus Christ was the midpoint of being without a thoroughgoing investigation into the relations of christology with ontology, the study of being, the exploration of reality in its fundamental pith, shape, direction. 

   ...     http://cco.cambridge.org..

The MAGNIFICAT quote from Hans Urs von Balthasar in Heart of the World,(Ignatius Press, 1979) seems indicate a language more to the heart, different from, Theo-Logic. .... Volume I: The Truth of the World• Volume II: Truth of God • Volume III: The Spirit of the Truth. Theo-Drama ..... 

Happy surfing the soars of heights. 

In Dno.

Donald 

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---- Forwarded Message -----
From: William W. . .
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 18:59
Subject: Re: [Blog] HE AND i, Gabrielle B.- "Exchange of Hearts", 1940

Dear Father Donald,

 

I am caught up with delight at your extract, and reading on I am celebrating in the paragraph over the page from your extract (Nov 4th 1940). There is described the 'exchange' that goes right to the 'heart' of her relationship with Our Lord:

 

"You know how much more intensely one loves when one feels loved. It's like an animated conversation. Only in this one there is no need of any words. We love; that's all. And I am so much yours that you don't even feel that I come down or that you rise up, but it seems quite simple to you that we talk to each other on the same level, share as equals, even exchange our two hearts, since for Bridegroom and bride everything is in common, and although you give yourself utterly, you keep your personality and only enhance it the more".

 

Truly her's is a living relationship, an exquisite exchange!

 

With my love in Our Lord,

William 

COMMENT: Richard North, LINK

Thanks for the Blogspot, Christina, and other news.
Richard North, other chapters too - all in the Link.
In Dno.
Donald

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Christina . . . ,.
To: Fr Donald  . . .
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 5:55
Subject: Re: [Dom Donald's Blog] Fools for God Online - Two Nunraw Chapters on the Cistercians, I c1, V c.8

Dearest Don, I greatly enjoyed your blog on early Nunraw history..Fools for God.  It sure brought back many happy memories of our beloved Nunraw.  You obviously impressed the writer and I can well understand why.. Are the other chapters coming later?  .......... Hope you are both fighting fit and my loving wishes to Mark and all the community. Lots of love and prayer. Xris --

The Picture: 

                      Compline is one of the most lovely offices, thanking God for the day.  

I was paying some attention to it, but mostly allowed the prettiness of the music, 

and the thin, scratchy, weak singing of one of the monks 

whose job it was to sing the solo bits, to wash over me.  

I wanted to try to pin some of the faces in the choir stalls more firmly in my mind.

I can still hear the melodies, and still find singular resonance 

in the words sung each night: 

Keep us, Lord, as the apple of your eye; 

Hide us in the shelter of your wings.

            

FOOLS FOR GOD
by Richard North   

Published by Collins, 1987
   

The whole archive: CLICK  
http://richarddnorth.com/archive/books/downloads/fools4god.htm   

COMMENT: Von Balthaser 'soaring up'. Gabrielle 'upsoaring'

Loch Tummel, Killiecrankie

MAGNIFICANT Tues 30^th October 2012. Luke 13:18

MEDITATION      OF THE     DAY

The Mustard Seed

Whoever lives in me, whoever is taken up into me, is taken up in resurrection. I am the transformation. 

As bread and wine are transformed, so the world is transformed into me. The grain of mustard is tiny, and yet its inner might does not rest until it overshadows all the world's plants. 

Neither does my Resurrection rest until the grave of the last soul has burst, and my powers have reached even to the furthest-branch of creation. 

You see death; you feel the descent to the end. 

But death is itself a life, perhaps the most living life; it is the darkening depth of my life, and the end is itself the beginning, and the descent is itself the soaring up ... Every horror became for my love a garment in which to conceal itself, a wall through which to walk.

HANS URS VON BALTHASAR

Cardinal von Balthasar (+ 1988) was an eminent Swiss Catholic theologian and co-founder of a religious community. His extensive writings were an important influence on Blessed John Paul II. From ‘Heart of the World’ 1979.