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Reflections and Prayers on the Diary of Mother Mary Ignatius of Jesus Sr. Mary Ancilla Grenham LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT Reflection: Beloved Mother, through the action of Gods grace you came to know and experience the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. It was the Holy Spirit who brought you to the fullness of faith, who led you in all your journeyings over land and sea, in peace and in war, in poverty and failure. The Holy Spirit was the one who directed all your choices: from Guernsey to Oxford, to Wantage, to London, to Glasgow, to Jamaica, to Rome, to France, to Germany, to St. Thomas, to New York, to Minnesota. Beloved Mother, how blessed you were that the Spirit found in you a vessel open to being formed and filled and poured out as you followed in the footprints of Jesus. We rejoice to know the secret of your strength and we rejoice to be among those called to follow you. Prayer: O Holy Spirit of power, of light, you formed the heart of Mother Mary Ignatius. You led her in the footprints of Jesus and Francis. Through her openness to you she became a deep channel of new life within our Church. You cleansed, purified, and strengthened her through suffering and the cross of failures. Only then was the wheat ready to fall and die so that new fresh bread could be broken in your church for a world in need. Beloved Foundress, pray for us who are called by God to follow your way. Obtain for us from Jesus the grace to listen ever more attentively to Gods Holy Spirit. Only through the power of the Holy Spirit will we be ready to be broken for the needs of the world. Amen. KNOWING THE WILL OF GOD Reflection: All great souls who are sensitive to the Fathers will suffer in their search. Beloved Mother Mary Ignatius, you were no exception. In your prayer for Gods guidance you were one with Francis as you p rayed, “Lord, what will you have me do?” In your search for Gods will we see a prolonged and difficult period of struggle. Like Jesus in the