Sunday, August 12, 2007



THE HEART OF OUR LADY

3. Mary's Heart.
The tempter might tell you that this is just a fine theory, quite out of reach for everyone. Let your answer be the keeping of the Most Pure Heart of Mary before your eyes. There you find theory brought to splendid practice. There you have the model which God gives us not for mere admiration but for imitation too.

In the Heart of Mary there is found the fulfillment of the most harmonious order since all Her thoughts, desires, activities down to the most insignificant movement were in Her wonderfully orderly.

Every imperfection and fault is a disorder and in the Heart of Mary there never was even the slightest fault or shadow of disorder. Her will, Her intelligence, Her memory, Her senses, all in Her was submitted to that supreme rule of the human heart: "Man has been created for the purpose of praising, revering and serving the divine majesty of God."

We could apply to Our Blessed Lady that challenge of Christ: Who can convict me of sin? Who could find any disorder in the Heart of Our Lady?

Unity of thoughts, of affections, of intentions; Her Heart was always united to that of Jesus, the only goal of Her actions.

The Heart of Jesus requested St. Margaret to unite her intentions to those of His Divine Heart, since in this way the slightest actions would deserve torrents of graces. We can then imagine how Mary would have brought about this unification of Her life, of Her intentions and of Her Heart with the Heart of Her divine Son. And if it was said of the Son of Mary that He did all things well, the same should be said of Mary on account of this simplicity of Her heart and this perfect union with the Heart of Jesus.

Request Your good Mother to give you the grace to imitate this unity so that your heart may not be divided amongst creatures but rather kept whole and united with the Heart of the Divine Saviour through Her.

[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]

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