MEDITATION 10
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY
1. Our own nativity.
We celebrate our birthday as a day of rejoicing. It is customary to rejoice at the birth of a child, more especially if he is the first-born. What a joy, how many congratulations are given to the happy parents! And yet how many times we ought rather to weep. Some children are confronted with an unhappy future. Our hopes of baby's future happiness are doubtful and uncertain. We know for certain that the child will have to suffer. Nobody teaches him to cry and yet how quickly he learns to weep. And tears will never long be absent from his eyes, nor sorrow from his heart.
The same happens in the spiritual order. the newly born child is a slave of the devil. He is stained with sin. He, although he looks so innocent, is deprived of Heaven. As yet Heaven is not his inheritance. He will receive baptism and with it comes grace, but how long will that grace last? The age of reason is often the beginning of a story of sin. Alas, we are generally made aware that children have reached the age of reason because they have begun to show signs of malice. Sorrow, tears, uncertainty, sin, concupiscence surround every cradle.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
We celebrate our birthday as a day of rejoicing. It is customary to rejoice at the birth of a child, more especially if he is the first-born. What a joy, how many congratulations are given to the happy parents! And yet how many times we ought rather to weep. Some children are confronted with an unhappy future. Our hopes of baby's future happiness are doubtful and uncertain. We know for certain that the child will have to suffer. Nobody teaches him to cry and yet how quickly he learns to weep. And tears will never long be absent from his eyes, nor sorrow from his heart.
The same happens in the spiritual order. the newly born child is a slave of the devil. He is stained with sin. He, although he looks so innocent, is deprived of Heaven. As yet Heaven is not his inheritance. He will receive baptism and with it comes grace, but how long will that grace last? The age of reason is often the beginning of a story of sin. Alas, we are generally made aware that children have reached the age of reason because they have begun to show signs of malice. Sorrow, tears, uncertainty, sin, concupiscence surround every cradle.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
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