Called To Serve: Servus Servorum Dei Servant Of The Servants Of God

Called to Serve Servus Servorum Dei Servant of the Servants of God (Title of the Pope)

Commissioning 

Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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 behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20)

Freedom for Service 

For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love. (Galatians 5:13)

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Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:8)

Our Neighbour 

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest thing presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ…the glorifier and the glorified, Glory himself, is truly hidden. (The Weight of Glory)

Love the Lord 

“But be very careful to observe the precept and law which Moses, the servant of the Lord, enjoined upon you: love the Lord, your God; follow him faithfully; keep his commandments; remain loyal to him; and serve him with your whole heart and soul” (Joshua 22:5)

Ultimate Sign of Service 

“This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.” (John 15:1214)

Martyrs 

Martyr is Greek for witness

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People today put more trust in witnesses than preachers, in experience than in teaching, in life and action than in theories. The witness of a Christian life is the first and irreplaceable form of mission. (Pt.42, Mission of the Redeemer)

Begin with Prayer 

In the first place, beg of Him by most earnest prayer, that He perfect whatever good you do begin, in order that He who has been pleased to count us in the number of His children, need never be grieved at our evil deeds. For we ought at all times so to serve Him with the good things which He hath given us… (Prologue, Rule of St. Benedict)

Created Things 

It means making good use of created things: faith in God, the only One, leads us to use everything that is not God only insofar as it brings us closer to him, and to detach ourselves from it insofar as it turns us away from him. (CCC 226)

Use Your Gifts 

As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace. (1 Peter 4:10)

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“I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given but from the one who has not, event what he has will be taken away.” (Luke 19:26, Parable of the Ten Gold Coins)

Use Your Gifts 

His master said to him, “Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.” (Matthew 25:21, Parable of the Talents)

Joy 

“If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” (John 15:10-11)

Greatness 

“But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just so, the Son of Man not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:26-28)

Beware 

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading. (Chp.48, Rule of St. Benedict)

Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Prayer of St. Francis O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.

Ways of Serving 

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Devotion & Prayer Formation & Teaching Works of Charity

Instructions for good works (Chp.4, Rule of St. Benedict) Called & Gifted program

Prayer (St. Nicholas of Flüe) My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you. My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you. My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you. Amen.