Sunday, December 19, 2010

Mary TV Daily Reflection 12/19/2010

Joseph and Mary arrive in Bethlehem (watercolour)

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December 19, 2010
Fourth Sunday of Advent


Dear Family of Mary!

"Dear children! Today again I am calling you to prayer to complete surrender to God. You know that I love you and am coming here out of love so I could show you the path to peace and salvation for your souls. I want you to obey me and not permit Satan to seduce you."   (February 25, 1988)

Obedience is one of the evangelical counsels.  Obedience is actually love in action.  When we obey God we are showing Him how much we love Him and even more how much we trust Him.  "He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me;" (John 14: 21).  Obedience is an act of complete surrender to God, complete love for Him.  Jesus showed us this love during His Passion, when he willingly obeyed his torturers.  He had discerned that the Father was allowing His passion, and so He obeyed them out of love for the Father.  Our Lady showed a similar love for the Father when she accompanied Joseph to Bethlehem for the census.  Such trust!  May we learn to place ourselves in God's hands out of love for Him.  It will bear such beautiful fruit!


FOURTH DAY:  DECEMBER 19

Bethlehem, Nativity

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O Sweetest Jesus, Who went up to Bethlehem in the womb of Mary, to obey the command of Caesar, who had ordered all his subjects to be enrolled. O grant us the grace to obey with alacrity the most arduous commands from those who hold Your place over us.

Our Father... Hail Mary...Glory be...

HAIL AND BLESSED be the hour and the moment in which the Son of God was born of the Most Pure Blessed Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in the piercing cold: In that hour, vouchsafe, 0 my God, to hear my prayer and grant my petitions, through the merits of Jesus Christ Our Lord.

In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan

 

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