THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LADY
2. The Consecration of Our Lady.
She enters the Temple and delivers Herself up to God in order to be His, entirely and for ever. How fervently would Our Lady accomplish this consecration and how pleasing it would be to God. remember how many times you have said something similar to God, how often you consecrated yourself to Him, how you also told Him that you wanted your soul to be always and entirely His. But what a difference between your word and Mary's! Yours will have sometimes caused sorrow to God when He foresaw how badly you would fulfill your promise. Instead, what an amount of glory was given to God by this most perfect surrendering of Our
Heavenly Mother, a surrender so entire and so enduring.
The thought of pleasing God is ever present to Mary. She was His from the very first moment of Her conception. She never ceased being God's property. And since She was aware of the graces She had received from God She well knew it. And She wishes that Her union with God should if possible be more intimate and perfect. What a shining example! And you, who on account of your misery, need this union much more urgently, how little you care for it, how little you try to achieve to belong to God! And yet this should be your ruling thought, your greatest longing. Ask Mary for that grace.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
She enters the Temple and delivers Herself up to God in order to be His, entirely and for ever. How fervently would Our Lady accomplish this consecration and how pleasing it would be to God. remember how many times you have said something similar to God, how often you consecrated yourself to Him, how you also told Him that you wanted your soul to be always and entirely His. But what a difference between your word and Mary's! Yours will have sometimes caused sorrow to God when He foresaw how badly you would fulfill your promise. Instead, what an amount of glory was given to God by this most perfect surrendering of Our
Heavenly Mother, a surrender so entire and so enduring.
The thought of pleasing God is ever present to Mary. She was His from the very first moment of Her conception. She never ceased being God's property. And since She was aware of the graces She had received from God She well knew it. And She wishes that Her union with God should if possible be more intimate and perfect. What a shining example! And you, who on account of your misery, need this union much more urgently, how little you care for it, how little you try to achieve to belong to God! And yet this should be your ruling thought, your greatest longing. Ask Mary for that grace.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
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