MARY AND THE DEATH OF JESUS
1. The Last Words.
c) The supreme moment is approaching. Our Lady who does not take Her eyes from Her Son, has already discovered in His face the unmistakable signs of approaching death. She trembles on seeing that the end is in sight. Then She sees Jesus painfully raise His eyes for the last time and exclaim: It is achieved. And then, with a paramount effort He exclaims: Father, into Thy hands I entrust my spirit. Divine word! If all the words of Jesus were carved in the heart of His Mother, how would these magnificent last ones remain engraved in it.
The master has ended His teachings with a sublime lecture that closed the book of His life. What happiness, to be able to render our soul to God by saying: "All is achieved." Whatever Thou commissioned me to achieve in this world, whatever Thou wanted from me, that which Thou hadst a right to except from my soul, in one word, all my obligations, I have fulfilled them: I have burnt my life till the end, in Thy service, for Thy glory. Why should it not be so with us all?
Ask Our Lady to teach you how to spend your life in this manner. How to wind up your career in this way so that at the end of it, without shame or remorse you may through the hands of Mary place your spirit in the hands of God.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
1. The Last Words.
c) The supreme moment is approaching. Our Lady who does not take Her eyes from Her Son, has already discovered in His face the unmistakable signs of approaching death. She trembles on seeing that the end is in sight. Then She sees Jesus painfully raise His eyes for the last time and exclaim: It is achieved. And then, with a paramount effort He exclaims: Father, into Thy hands I entrust my spirit. Divine word! If all the words of Jesus were carved in the heart of His Mother, how would these magnificent last ones remain engraved in it.
The master has ended His teachings with a sublime lecture that closed the book of His life. What happiness, to be able to render our soul to God by saying: "All is achieved." Whatever Thou commissioned me to achieve in this world, whatever Thou wanted from me, that which Thou hadst a right to except from my soul, in one word, all my obligations, I have fulfilled them: I have burnt my life till the end, in Thy service, for Thy glory. Why should it not be so with us all?
Ask Our Lady to teach you how to spend your life in this manner. How to wind up your career in this way so that at the end of it, without shame or remorse you may through the hands of Mary place your spirit in the hands of God.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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