A prayer of the\nServant of God, Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus to the\nsoul: Why are you upset and agitated? Leave your cares to Me and all will be\nfine. I tell you honestly, every act of true and blind reliance on Me, results\nin what you desire and will resolve all your difficulties. Abandonment in Me\ndoes not mean being frustrated, becoming anxious and desperate, offering Me\nyour anxious prayer, that I may follow you and have your anxiety be a prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abandonment\nmeans to shut the eyes of your soul in peace, moving your thoughts away from\nyour troubles, and instead of thinking about your worries and pain, let Me take\nover your troubles. Simply say: Jesus, You take over. To be worried, restless,\nand to think of the consequences of an event is the opposite of reliance, it is\nreally contrary to it. It is like a child, who wants his mom to take care of\nhis needs, but in the way he wants: and with his whims and childish ideas he\nhampers her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shut your eyes\nand go with the flow of My grace. Do not ponder over your present moment and\nput away thoughts of your future as a temptation; rest in Me, believe in My\ngoodness and I swear on My Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That if you\nthink like this: Jesus, You take over, I indeed will do it for you, I will\ncomfort you, free you, and guide you. If I have to take you in a different\ndirection from the one you are looking at, I will train you, I pick you up in\nmy arms, and you will find yourself, like a baby sleeping in his mother\u2019s arms,\non the other shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What gives you\nimmense stress and hurts you, is your reasoning over it, your thoughts and the\npains it gives you; it is wanting at all costs to take care by yourself of what\nis afflicting you. How many things I can do, be it a material or a spiritual\nneed, when the soul turns to Me, looks at Me and says to Me: Jesus, You take\nover, and close its eyes and rests in Me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You do not\nreceive many graces because you insist on getting them by yourself; But\ninstead, you will receive numberless graces, when your prayer is in full\nreliance on Me. When you are in pain, and you pray that I may act, you want Me\nto act as you believe I should\u2026 you do not turn to Me; Instead you want Me to\nsubmit to your ideas; You are like a sick person who does not ask the doctor\nfor the cure, but tells him what the cure is to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t be like\nthis, but pray as I taught you in the Our Father: Hallowed be your name, which\nmeans, may You be glorified in this need of mine; Your kingdom come, which\nmeans, everything may work toward Your Kingdom in us and in the world; Your\nwill be done on earth as it is in heaven, which means, You direct it as it\nseems best to You for the good of our eternal and temporal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you truly\ntell me: Your will be done, which is the same then to say: Jesus, You take\nover, then I do intervene with all My omnipotence, And I will resolve every\nsituation, even if there is no way out. For example, do you see your sickness\nbecoming worse instead of improving? Don\u2019t become anxious, close your eyes and\ntell Me with trust: Your will be done, Jesus, You take over. I repeat it, I do\ntake care, I intervene like a doctor, and even do a miracle if it is necessary.\nDoes a patient become worse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t be\nfrightened, close your eyes and say: Jesus, You take over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tell you\nagain: I will indeed do it for you, and there is no medicine more powerful than\nmy loving intervention. I take over only when you close your eyes. You never\nsleep, you want to appraise everything, to think, to delve into everything; you\nchoose to rely on human power, or, worse, on men, trusting their intervention.\nThis is what hampers My words and My will. Oh how much I long for this reliance\nin order to assist you, and how much I grieve to see your anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Satan does just\nthis: he gives you the anxiety to remove Me from you and throw you into the\nhuman initiative. Trust only in Me instead, rest in Me, rely on Me in\neverything. I do miracles in proportion to your complete reliance on Me, with\nno thought of yourself. I spread treasures of graces when you are in the most\nsqualid poverty. If you have your own resources, even a few, or if you seek\nthem, you are at the natural level, Thus you follow the natural way of things,\nwhich often are dominated by Satan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Never a thinker\nor a philosopher has done any miracle, not even among the Saints; only he who\nrelies on God does divine work. When you see that things become complicated,\nsay with your eyes closed: Jesus, I abandon myself to You; Jesus, You take\nover, and stop worrying about it, because your mind is sharp and for you, it is\ndifficult to distinguish evil, but trust in Me, and let your mind wander away\nfrom your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do this for all\nyour needs; all of you, do this, and you shall see great things, endless and\nsilent miracles. I swear it on My Love. I shall indeed take over, you can be\nsure of it. Pray always with this loving confidence. And you shall have great\npeace and great fruits, even when I choose for you the grace of immolating\nyourself for reparation and the love that entails suffering. Do you believe it\nis impossible? Shut your eyes and say with all your soul: Jesus, You take over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t be\nafraid, I indeed will take care of you, and you shall bless My Name, in\nhumility. A thousand prayers do not equal only one act of abandonment; don\u2019t\never forget it. There is no better novena than this: Oh Jesus I abandon myself\nto You, Jesus, You take over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SURRENDER NOVENA OF FR. DOLINDO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NOVENA OF SURRENDER TO THE WILL OF\nGOD (Author: Father Don Dolindo Ruotolo \u271d\n1882-1970) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 1 Why do you confuse\nyourselves by worrying? Leave the care of your affairs to me and\neverything will be peaceful. I say to you in truth that every act of true,\n blind, complete surrender to me produces the effect that you desire\n and resolves all difficult situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 2 Surrender to me\ndoes not mean to fret, to be upset, or to lose hope, nor does it\nmean offering to me a worried prayer asking me to follow you and\nchange your worry into prayer. It is against this surrender, deeply\nagainst it, to worry, to be nervous and to desire to think about\nthe consequences of anything. It is like the confusion that children feel\n when they ask their mother to see to their needs, and then try to\ntake care of those needs for themselves so that their childlike efforts\nget in their mother\u2019s way. Surrender means to placidly close the eyes of\nthe soul, to turn away from thoughts of tribulation and to put\nyourself in my care, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 3 How many things I\ndo when the soul, in so much spiritual and material need turns to me,\n looks at me and says to me; \u201cYou take care of it,\u201d then close\nits eyes and rests. In pain you pray for me to act, but that I act\nin the way you want. You do not turn to me, instead, you want me to\nadapt to your ideas. You are not sick people who ask the doctor to cure\nyou, but rather sick people who tell the doctor how to. So do not\nact this way, but pray as I taught you in the Our Father: \u201cHallowed\nbe thy Name\u201d, that is, be glorified in my need. \u201cThy kingdom come\u201d,\n that is, let all that is in us and in the world be in accord with\nyour kingdom. \u201cThy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven\u201d, that\nis, in our need, decide as you see fit for our temporal and eternal\nlife. If you say to me truly: \u201cThy will be done\u201d which is the\nsame as saying: \u201cYou take care of it\u201d I will intervene with all my\nomnipotence, and I will resolve the most difficult\nsituations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 4 You see evil\ngrowing instead of weakening? Do not worry, Close your eyes and say\nto me with faith: \u201cThy will be done, You take care of it.\u201d I say to\nyou that I will take care of it, and that I will intervene as does a\ndoctor and I will accomplish miracles when they are needed. Do you\nsee that the sick person is getting worse? Do not be upset, but\nclose your eyes and say \u201cYou take care of it.\u201d I say to you that I\nwill take care of it, and that there is no medicine more powerful\nthan my loving intervention. By my love, I promise this to\nyou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 5 And when I must\nlead you on a path different from the one you see, I will prepare you;\n I will carry you in my arms; I will let you find\nyourself, like children who have fallen asleep in their mother\u2019s arms,\n on the other bank of the river. What troubles you and hurts you\nimmensely are your reason, your thoughts and worry, and your desire\nat all costs to deal with what afflicts you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 6 You are sleepless;\n you want to judge everything, direct everything and see to\neverything and you surrender to human strength, or worse – to men\nthemselves, trusting in their intervention, – this is what hinders\nmy words and my views. Oh how much I wish from you this surrender,\n to help you and how I suffer when I see you so agitated! Satan tries\nto do exactly this: to agitate you and to remove you from my protection\n and to throw you into the jaws of human initiative. So, trust only\nin me, rest in me, surrender to me in everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 7 I perform miracles\nin proportion to your full surrender to me and to your not thinking of\nyourselves. I sow treasure troves of graces when you are in the\ndeepest poverty. No person of reason, no thinker, has ever\nperformed miracles, not even among the saints. He does divine works\nwhosoever surrenders to God. So don\u2019t think about it any more,\n because your mind is acute and for you it is very hard to see evil\n and to trust in me and to not think of yourself. Do this for\nall your needs, do this all of you and you will see great continual\nsilent miracles. I will take care of things, I promise this to\nyou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 8 Close your eyes and\nlet yourself be carried away on the flowing current of my grace;\n close your eyes and do not think of the present, turning your\nthoughts away from the future just as you would from temptation.\n Repose in me, believing in my goodness, and I promise you by my\nlove that if you say “You take care of it,\u201d I will take care of it\nall; I will console you, liberate you and guide you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat 10 times… O\nJesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 9 Pray always in\nreadiness to surrender, and you will receive from it great peace and great\nrewards, even when I confer on you the grace of immolation, of\nrepentance and of love. Then what does suffering matter? It seems\nimpossible to you? Close your eyes and say with all your\nsoul, \u201cJesus, you take care of it.\u201d Do not be afraid, I will take\ncare of things and you will bless my name by humbling yourself. A\nthousand prayers cannot equal one single act of surrender, remember this\nwell. There is no novena more effective than this: Repeat 10\ntimes… O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of\neverything! Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and\nwith you I always want to belong completely to Jesus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A prayer of the Servant of God, Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo Jesus to the soul: Why are you upset and agitated? Leave your cares to Me and all will be fine. I tell you honestly, every act of true and blind reliance on Me, results in what you desire and will resolve all your difficulties. Abandonment … <\/p>\n