Dying St. Joseph with Jesus & MaryMARY IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS
4. God's Will.
Finally Her life was one of exact fulfillment of God's Will. Without this there is no sanctity. Remember the two occasions on which Jesus during His public life spoke of His Mother. Once was when He was told that His Mother was calling Him and Jesus answered: Who is my mother? The one who does the will of my Father is my mother, and my brothers and my relations.
The other is when that good woman exclaimed: Blessed be the womb that bore Thee and Jesus replied: More blessed is still the one who listens to the word of God and follows it! Learn this lesson. This is the only thing great in the presence of God. His own Mother's greatness if based on the fact that She was the one Who best fulfilled the Will of God. It was not enough for Her to have borne Him in Her womb, to have given Him His human life. It was necessary that She should excel in the exact fulfillment of the Will of God. Thus She, being both His Mother and the best executor of God's will, was doubly entitled to the name of Mother and for this was She great and blessed.
This is the lesson that we must draw from these words. You cannot imitate Mary in Her Motherhood, but you can and must imitate Her in Her perfect fulfillment of the Will of God.
Ask this grace from Her, implore the light always to know God's Holy Will and the grace to ignore your own. Ask for grace and strength to follow the Holy Will without hesitation.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
4. God's Will.
Finally Her life was one of exact fulfillment of God's Will. Without this there is no sanctity. Remember the two occasions on which Jesus during His public life spoke of His Mother. Once was when He was told that His Mother was calling Him and Jesus answered: Who is my mother? The one who does the will of my Father is my mother, and my brothers and my relations.
The other is when that good woman exclaimed: Blessed be the womb that bore Thee and Jesus replied: More blessed is still the one who listens to the word of God and follows it! Learn this lesson. This is the only thing great in the presence of God. His own Mother's greatness if based on the fact that She was the one Who best fulfilled the Will of God. It was not enough for Her to have borne Him in Her womb, to have given Him His human life. It was necessary that She should excel in the exact fulfillment of the Will of God. Thus She, being both His Mother and the best executor of God's will, was doubly entitled to the name of Mother and for this was She great and blessed.
This is the lesson that we must draw from these words. You cannot imitate Mary in Her Motherhood, but you can and must imitate Her in Her perfect fulfillment of the Will of God.
Ask this grace from Her, implore the light always to know God's Holy Will and the grace to ignore your own. Ask for grace and strength to follow the Holy Will without hesitation.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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