An Interior Pilgrimage with The Interior Liturgy…
The 7th Station of the Interior Liturgy: The Station of Personal Communion.
Our Petition: “Hallowed be thy name.” Here is the summit of prayer. The sacrament corresponding to the 7th Station is Matrimony. The grace of the Station configures us to beatific communion in Christ with God the Holy Trinity.
Meditation:
The communion of persons in God – celebrated and enabled in the Sacrament of Matrimony – recalls for us immediately, the Garden. God created man and woman to be each for the other, each in a unique way. How different we are! Yet God made us different, for the sake of union in love. Here in the beginning, then, our vocation is already revealed: in the call to be one, with one who is other, we find our happiness.
Communion is in the name of God, the Holy Trinity. Communion is also within the nature of man: we are made in His image. In self-gift to the other, we find ourselves. In Holy Communion, in His Holy Name, we at last become ourselves. Hallowed be His Name.
Responsory:
Verse: The Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit. In the procreation and education of children it reflects the Father’s work of creation. It is called to partake of the prayer and sacrifice of Christ. (CCC 2205)
Response: Hallowed be thy name.
Verse: And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name…. (Jn 17:11)
Response: Hallowed be thy name.
Verse: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age. (Mt 28:19-20)
Response: Hallowed be thy name.
Prayer:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
(pause)
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
Amen.
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Blessed Feast Day, dear Thomas! On this Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, how grateful I am to God and to you for providing this “Interior Pilgrimage”!
This 7th Station indeed brings me (and hopefully many others) to the summit of the Perfect Prayer, taught by Jesus, the “Our Father”. The Sacrament of Matrimony, mirrors for us the Communion of Love in the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit — eternally giving and receiving Love. Distinct in Person, yet One God — Mystery beyond us, yet the Trinity is willing to dwell within us.
“Blessed are those who have not seen yet have believed”. How blessed we are to have received from God, the Gifts of Faith, Hope and above all Charity! How blessed to belong to Him, and in His Name to become more and more like Him, as His adopted sons and daughters in Christ!
The Charity of Christ urges us to go, find those who have not encountered Jesus. We are called by Love to love as He loved us, and bring others Home.
St. Thomas, the Apostle, pray for us.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, intercede for us.
Come Holy Spirit, bring us into all truth. Sanctify us.
Father, hallowed be Thy Name in us and through us. Amen.
By: Deborah on July 3, 2017
at 5:29 am
Dear Thomas, such a beautiful prayer, The Our Father. The more I pray it, the closer I feel to God. This pilgrimage is something that I’ll have to do many many times. Thank you for sharing. God be with you, and God bless you.
By: Susan Scully on March 12, 2020
at 9:04 pm
Today is the Feast of St. Joseph, husband of Mary and Guardian of Jesus. It is a beautiful day to complete this “Interior Pilgrimage” in which we listened to Jesus teach us to pray, and to live, the “Our Father”– the perfect prayer.
How we need to keep listening as Mary and Joseph listened to Jesus, and continued to listen – even when they didn’t understand His words to them! (cf Luke 2: 41-52)
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your Faithful. Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Bring us, into the Fullness of Truth that we may learn to love as children in the Family of God.
Thanks, Thomas, for sharing this “Interior Pilgrimage” God graced you to write!
By: Deborah on March 19, 2020
at 6:34 pm