Meditation 93
SANCTITY
1. The Holy Will of God.
We are reaching the end of our Marian Meditations whose chief aim should be to spur us on to labor for our sanctification. This is the will of God, says St. Paul, that you should become saints. This was God's Holy Will about Our Blessed Lady as it is also in regard to ourselves. Let, then, this meditation on sanctity be the crowning of all the other meditations.
The virtues of Our Holy Mother form Her glorious crown. She is our perfect model, our peerless teacher. Let us see Her also as our model in sanctity. The sanctity of Mary is a pleasant yet difficult subject to delve into.
In order to deal with it all exhaustively we should have a perfect knowledge of it. But this is possible only to God. Yet we must meditate on the sanctity of the most holy soul of Mary so that we may follow Her at close range. This is, indeed, the Holy Will of God "that we must become saints." Consequently, sanctity is a duty which we must fulfill. It is not just simple advice.
All of us wish to save ourselves. But do we equally want to be saints? And yet both things are inseparable. Only the one who insures the life of grace in his soul will save himself. But this is precisely sanctity. Grace is sanctity. Naturally there are many different degrees in it but without grace there is no entering Heaven and without sanctity nobody can be saved.
We must, then, strive after sanctity in order to save ourselves. To aim at salvation and to consider sanctity as an exclusive privilege of some chosen few would be a fatal mistake. All are invited to the higher degree of perfection. To this climbing there is no limit.
Sanctity, which presupposes the grace of God, is God's greatest achievement, the most divine of His works. But it is also the masterpiece of man: he could do nothing greater. The most important thing man can do is to work at this enterprise.
Could we see a soul in the state of grace, in the state of sanctity, we would see God Himself in it, since its beauty is the beauty of God. The greater the sanctity in a soul, the more intimate is also its union with God, its share of the divine perfections.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
SANCTITY
1. The Holy Will of God.
We are reaching the end of our Marian Meditations whose chief aim should be to spur us on to labor for our sanctification. This is the will of God, says St. Paul, that you should become saints. This was God's Holy Will about Our Blessed Lady as it is also in regard to ourselves. Let, then, this meditation on sanctity be the crowning of all the other meditations.
The virtues of Our Holy Mother form Her glorious crown. She is our perfect model, our peerless teacher. Let us see Her also as our model in sanctity. The sanctity of Mary is a pleasant yet difficult subject to delve into.
In order to deal with it all exhaustively we should have a perfect knowledge of it. But this is possible only to God. Yet we must meditate on the sanctity of the most holy soul of Mary so that we may follow Her at close range. This is, indeed, the Holy Will of God "that we must become saints." Consequently, sanctity is a duty which we must fulfill. It is not just simple advice.
All of us wish to save ourselves. But do we equally want to be saints? And yet both things are inseparable. Only the one who insures the life of grace in his soul will save himself. But this is precisely sanctity. Grace is sanctity. Naturally there are many different degrees in it but without grace there is no entering Heaven and without sanctity nobody can be saved.
We must, then, strive after sanctity in order to save ourselves. To aim at salvation and to consider sanctity as an exclusive privilege of some chosen few would be a fatal mistake. All are invited to the higher degree of perfection. To this climbing there is no limit.
Sanctity, which presupposes the grace of God, is God's greatest achievement, the most divine of His works. But it is also the masterpiece of man: he could do nothing greater. The most important thing man can do is to work at this enterprise.
Could we see a soul in the state of grace, in the state of sanctity, we would see God Himself in it, since its beauty is the beauty of God. The greater the sanctity in a soul, the more intimate is also its union with God, its share of the divine perfections.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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