THE EXPECTATION OF CHRIST'S BIRTH
4. Your Own Life.
Here is the model for your own life. Real living is living with Jesus. A real life is one of total surrender to Jesus and to Mary. No one suspects the sweetness, the charm and the perfection that is hidden in the interior life. Learn from Jesus and Mary what interior life is. Compare yourself with them. Do you enjoy silence; do you relish living hidden and unknown? Do you welcome its external simplicity? In your heart is there that fervor, that love for Mary which leads you to see and speak with Jesus in the intimacy of your soul?
How is it that this contact with Jesus, this presence of Jesus, so similar to His life hidden in the womb of His Mother, does not bring forth in you especially at Holy Communion the sanctity it begot in Her? To this end you must watch over your senses, mortify them, concentrate on your interior, compel your powers to see Jesus within you, grow accustomed to deal with Him in the intimate recesses of your soul.
Lastly, consider that you have here a most perfect model of Marian slavery. Jesus is the first voluntary slave of Mary. His life depends on Her. So must your life be one of entire surrender and dedication to Mary. Hence nothing without Her.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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