[MaryVitamin] piety

 

Mary Vitamin for May 7th

Topic: Our Lady's Piety

Quote:

Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,

and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.

Luke 2:41-42

Meditation:

Father Stefano Manelli, FI

But true piety does not allow itself to be smothered by distinctions defining the exact demarcation between obligation and dispensation, the licit and illicit. Over and above neat categorizations the Holy Spirit 'breathes where He wills' not contrary to the law, but beyond the law.

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed, (Academy of the Immaculate), 278.

Footnote Garofalo

Father Manelli explains that the members of the Holy Family were not obliged to go to Jerusalem every year for the important feasts. The requirement fell on those  who could travel the distance in one day. It took the Holy Family three days to travel to Jerusalem.  Moreover, women were not obliged and neither were children who had not yet reached the age of thirteen.

Resolution:

 Our Lady's piety teaches me not to count costs in what I give to the Lord. I will notice my practices in dress, words, work ethic, courtesy, prayer time and ask myself  if I am operating with the minimum in view.

The Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola:

Dear Lord,

Teach me to be generous, teach me to serve as you deserve, to give and not heed the wounds, to toil and not seek for rest, to labor and not seek reward save that of knowing I do your most holy  will, O God. Amen.

Marian Vow:

St. Claude de la Colombiere

Learn your rule well, and act in such a way that at the hour of your death you may have the consolation of not having broken one deliberately.

Mother M. Philip, I.B.V.M., The Spiritual Direction of Saint Claude de la Colombiere, (Ignatius Press), 116.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

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