THE HOME OF NAZARETH
2. The Model.
There is one great practical lesson in Nazareth. Jesus and Mary do not see in obedience something accidental and transitory, but something essential and abiding. That is why the holy life of Jesus will always be a model of obedience. Above all, to obey: this is the plan and program of His life. But on the other hand who was He? To whom was He supposed to render obedience? His parents, although very saintly, were still infinitely far from His own sanctity. He knew much better than anyone what He had to do. Yet He wants to know nothing else than that which is commanded to Him by obedience. And Our Blessed Lady also, with such a Divine Model before Her, how She must have embraced all the desires and orders of Her holy spouse! Live under that humble roof only for one day and you will see how from morning till night there reigns an unalterable peace, a heavenly serenity. All this is the fruit of obedience. What a sight for the Angels of Heaven! How would they fall into ecstasy on seeing the greater submitting to the lessor! What a complete, total and absolute subjection to the will of the one who was representing God, although he was inferior to the other two members of the Holy Family!
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
There is one great practical lesson in Nazareth. Jesus and Mary do not see in obedience something accidental and transitory, but something essential and abiding. That is why the holy life of Jesus will always be a model of obedience. Above all, to obey: this is the plan and program of His life. But on the other hand who was He? To whom was He supposed to render obedience? His parents, although very saintly, were still infinitely far from His own sanctity. He knew much better than anyone what He had to do. Yet He wants to know nothing else than that which is commanded to Him by obedience. And Our Blessed Lady also, with such a Divine Model before Her, how She must have embraced all the desires and orders of Her holy spouse! Live under that humble roof only for one day and you will see how from morning till night there reigns an unalterable peace, a heavenly serenity. All this is the fruit of obedience. What a sight for the Angels of Heaven! How would they fall into ecstasy on seeing the greater submitting to the lessor! What a complete, total and absolute subjection to the will of the one who was representing God, although he was inferior to the other two members of the Holy Family!
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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