Meditation 55
LIFE AT NAZARETH
1. A Life of Development.
The evangelists, so reticent when dealing with the life at Nazareth, do not, however, omit to say that the Child grew and developed. Let us meditate on this mysterious growing.
In every kind of life there is growth. In the vegetative kingdom, you know that a plant has taken root and lives from the fact that it increases and grows. So also in the animal kingdom. What would happen if an animal, or a human body, did not grow and develop after having been born? That would be a freak of nature. It would not live. Without doubt life is essentially growing. And this same principle holds good also for the spiritual life. This, though internal, is also life, and it consequently demands development. Growing is an increasing, an acquiring of some new perfection. Therefore, in the spiritual life there is no stopping, no halting. Not to advance in the spiritual life is tantamount to going backwards. Halting in consequence of lukewarmness or coldness, is equivalent to going back. e not deceived. If you are not advancing you are marching backwards. If you do not increase you are losing ground day by day.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
LIFE AT NAZARETH
1. A Life of Development.
The evangelists, so reticent when dealing with the life at Nazareth, do not, however, omit to say that the Child grew and developed. Let us meditate on this mysterious growing.
In every kind of life there is growth. In the vegetative kingdom, you know that a plant has taken root and lives from the fact that it increases and grows. So also in the animal kingdom. What would happen if an animal, or a human body, did not grow and develop after having been born? That would be a freak of nature. It would not live. Without doubt life is essentially growing. And this same principle holds good also for the spiritual life. This, though internal, is also life, and it consequently demands development. Growing is an increasing, an acquiring of some new perfection. Therefore, in the spiritual life there is no stopping, no halting. Not to advance in the spiritual life is tantamount to going backwards. Halting in consequence of lukewarmness or coldness, is equivalent to going back. e not deceived. If you are not advancing you are marching backwards. If you do not increase you are losing ground day by day.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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