MARY AND THE PASSION
4. Your Hour.
Remember that even you too will have your hour. For you also the hour of suffering and strife, trial, sorrow and death must sometime arrive. How do you make ready for those decisive hours, especially the last? Is your life a preparation for that hour? Are you not squandering the graces which the Lord is daily bestowing on you that you should sanctify yourself even at the cost of sacrifice? Do you play the coward and flee suffering?
Look at Jesus and at His sorrowful Mother and learn how to tread the path of sacrifice and mortification. Give a thought to Mary's blessing of Jesus. You also must ask Her blessing as well as leave of those to whom you owe obedience. You must never, not even when it is a question of self-sacrifice, go your own way.
Often, perhaps, this dependency will render your mortification greater and your humiliation more costly, but that is precisely what Jesus desires from you.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
4. Your Hour.
Remember that even you too will have your hour. For you also the hour of suffering and strife, trial, sorrow and death must sometime arrive. How do you make ready for those decisive hours, especially the last? Is your life a preparation for that hour? Are you not squandering the graces which the Lord is daily bestowing on you that you should sanctify yourself even at the cost of sacrifice? Do you play the coward and flee suffering?
Look at Jesus and at His sorrowful Mother and learn how to tread the path of sacrifice and mortification. Give a thought to Mary's blessing of Jesus. You also must ask Her blessing as well as leave of those to whom you owe obedience. You must never, not even when it is a question of self-sacrifice, go your own way.
Often, perhaps, this dependency will render your mortification greater and your humiliation more costly, but that is precisely what Jesus desires from you.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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