Third Day: August 29
St. Teresa of Calcutta Novena
August 29th: Third Day
August 29 is the third day of the St. Teresa of Calcutta Novena. You can follow along with the prayers here.
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Novena Prayers: August 29
Hear Him Say to You: "I Thirst"
“In His agony, in His pain, in His loneliness He said very clearly, ‘Why have You forsaken Me?’ He was so terribly lonely and forsaken and suffering on the Cross. At this most difficult time, He proclaimed: ‘I thirst’….And the people thought He was thirsty in an ordinary way and they gave Him vinegar straight away, but it was not that He thirsted for – it was for our love, our affection, that intimate attachment to Him, and that sharing of His passion. And it is strange that He used such a word. He used ‘I thirst’ instead of ‘Give Me your love’……The thirst of Jesus on the Cross is not imagination. It was a word: ‘I thirst’. Let us hear Him saying it to me and saying it to you……It is really a gift of God.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
Follow His Footsteps
“If you listen with your heart, you will hear, you will understand….Until you know deep inside that Jesus thirsts for you, you can’t begin to know who He wants to be for you. Or who He wants you to be for Him.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
“Follow His footsteps in search of souls. Carry Him and His light into the homes of the poor, especially to the souls most in need. Spread the charity of His Heart wherever you go and so satiate His thirst for souls.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
Thought for the Day
“Just think! God is thirsting for you and me to come forward to satiate His thirst.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
Ask for the grace to understand Jesus’ cry of thirst.
Prayer
Saint Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all. Obtain from the Heart of Jesus:
Here, make your request.
Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, cause of Our joy, pray for us.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Pray for us and be with us. Amen.
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Raphael painted The Sistine Madonna circa (1513-1514). We made circular cut-outs from the original image.
Diego Velasquez painted Christ Crucified circa 1632. We used a cropped version of his painting.
Heinrich Hofmann painted the captivating image of Jesus in 1894.
Circa 1677, Bartolome Esteban Murillo painted Mount Calvary and Christ Crucified.
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Photos
A beautifully photographed sky by Donald Tong inspired the website’s colour scheme. Cropped portions of it are the background for the footer Bible verse. He shared it as a free download on pexels.com.
The official photo of St. Teresa of Calcutta’s canonization shows a face worn with work and warmed with loving concern for others. It is a free image from favpng.com.
Saracrl shared the close-up of the feet of our Lord from the Divine Mercy painting on Cathopic.
The black & white photo of Mother Teresa is a free download at cleanPNG.