THE EXPECTATION OF CHRIST'S BIRTH
2. Her External Life.
How admirable is Our Mother in every detail! In spite of Her most intense and divine interior life She lets nothing appear outwardly. Her external demeanour showed a sweet calm, a lovable simplicity, an amiable serenity. No one at all suspects what is happening interiorly. Not even St. Joseph. How closely guarded is the treasure of Mary! How jealously She keeps it from human eyes! Neither ambition, nor pride, nor self-love, nor craving for praise can move Her a fraction to share Her secret. She will never lend Herself importance in front of Her neighbor. She will never esteem Herself superior to anybody, although She was superior to all. What practical humility, what precious simplicity! How often our scanty merits evaporate because we lay them open in front of all and are unable to keep our secrets only for God. How often we endanger our merits because we imprudently expose them to the eyes of men, longing, more or less directly, for some word of praise, some appreciation.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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