LIFE AT NAZARETH
4. Your Own Growth.
Your body no doubt has similarly developed but what about your soul? Can you say that it has grown every day, every month, every year? Do you feel that it is indeed growing? Do you, following St. Peter's invitation, grow up in grace and in the knowledge of our Saviour Jesus Christ, strive to grow in the knowledge of Jesus and in that of His Mother? Do you try to strike deeper roots in those two hearts?
If life is growth, can you say that your soul lives, or is it not rather languishing away? In the past were you not more innocent, more simple, more fervent? Indeed have not your passions, your self-love, your temper, increased in intensity rather than diminished? Have your virtues grown? Ask Our Lady the grace of growing. May She teach you to advance as fast as She did. Ask Her to teach you lest your soul becomes something monstrous or languishes on the verge of death. Storm the throne of Our Heavenly Mother, ask Her that everyday you may increase and advance along the path of sanctity. May She especially give you this lesson during Holy Communion, when She gives you Her Son, the greatest Food on which to feed and grow.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
4. Your Own Growth.
Your body no doubt has similarly developed but what about your soul? Can you say that it has grown every day, every month, every year? Do you feel that it is indeed growing? Do you, following St. Peter's invitation, grow up in grace and in the knowledge of our Saviour Jesus Christ, strive to grow in the knowledge of Jesus and in that of His Mother? Do you try to strike deeper roots in those two hearts?
If life is growth, can you say that your soul lives, or is it not rather languishing away? In the past were you not more innocent, more simple, more fervent? Indeed have not your passions, your self-love, your temper, increased in intensity rather than diminished? Have your virtues grown? Ask Our Lady the grace of growing. May She teach you to advance as fast as She did. Ask Her to teach you lest your soul becomes something monstrous or languishes on the verge of death. Storm the throne of Our Heavenly Mother, ask Her that everyday you may increase and advance along the path of sanctity. May She especially give you this lesson during Holy Communion, when She gives you Her Son, the greatest Food on which to feed and grow.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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