THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LADY
3. A Life of Fervor.
Hence you will deduce that the Lord wants us to serve Him, not anyhow but just as Our Lady did, with fervor (as opposed to tepidity which is the state into which we blindly fall if we make no effort in our spiritual life). When routine prevails, when there is no spirit of self-denial or self-control, when we are overcome by laziness and spiritual indifference, we immediately fall into tepidity. But God is nauseated by tepidity. The Lord says that He will cast away the tepid as we reject food which stomach cannot retain.
To cause nausea to Our Lord!, to provoke repugnance in God! This is a thought to fill us with holy fear. Are you anywhere near this state? Do you keep a watch over yourself so that you steer as far as possible from tepidity? Then the example of Mary will encourage you. Work with energy, with decision, with promptitude, with fervor just like Mary. No time for complacency. No more wasting the graces of God; and wasted they are when this accursed tepidity enters into a soul. Fight lukewarmness and routine. Follow your Mother so that your soul may be really and entirely God's.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
Hence you will deduce that the Lord wants us to serve Him, not anyhow but just as Our Lady did, with fervor (as opposed to tepidity which is the state into which we blindly fall if we make no effort in our spiritual life). When routine prevails, when there is no spirit of self-denial or self-control, when we are overcome by laziness and spiritual indifference, we immediately fall into tepidity. But God is nauseated by tepidity. The Lord says that He will cast away the tepid as we reject food which stomach cannot retain.
To cause nausea to Our Lord!, to provoke repugnance in God! This is a thought to fill us with holy fear. Are you anywhere near this state? Do you keep a watch over yourself so that you steer as far as possible from tepidity? Then the example of Mary will encourage you. Work with energy, with decision, with promptitude, with fervor just like Mary. No time for complacency. No more wasting the graces of God; and wasted they are when this accursed tepidity enters into a soul. Fight lukewarmness and routine. Follow your Mother so that your soul may be really and entirely God's.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
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