THE LIFE IN NAZARETH
5. Your Own Obedience.
Now examine your own obedience before Jesus and Mary. Do you also convert obedience into something accessory and accidental by obeying casually, or when it suits you, or when you feel like it, or when that which is commanded is pleasing to you? Is that the case, or do you rather strive after making of your obedience something essential and permanent in your spiritual life, by always obeying in all and in every detail, promptly, with submission of judgment and will, and out of a spirit of faith? How would Our Lady and St. Joseph dare command anything to Jesus if they had not previously experienced the joy and pleasure of obeying?
Since you want to be a real slave of Mary, ask Her the grace of understanding that this slavery consists in a life of obedience. Not in obeying every now and then, but in a life of permanent obedience, in embracing that obedience which covers the whole of our life.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
5. Your Own Obedience.
Now examine your own obedience before Jesus and Mary. Do you also convert obedience into something accessory and accidental by obeying casually, or when it suits you, or when you feel like it, or when that which is commanded is pleasing to you? Is that the case, or do you rather strive after making of your obedience something essential and permanent in your spiritual life, by always obeying in all and in every detail, promptly, with submission of judgment and will, and out of a spirit of faith? How would Our Lady and St. Joseph dare command anything to Jesus if they had not previously experienced the joy and pleasure of obeying?
Since you want to be a real slave of Mary, ask Her the grace of understanding that this slavery consists in a life of obedience. Not in obeying every now and then, but in a life of permanent obedience, in embracing that obedience which covers the whole of our life.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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