EVENING REFLECTION
Message #42 titled 'I Give You the Joy of the Cross.'
Now here's some great spirituality from Our Blessed Mother! That's why this MMP Blue Book is so important in the lives of Our Lady's devotees! Are you one? Let Mother Mary guide you and She will make sure you get to heaven! As She says to Fr. Gobbi, 'Let yourself be led by me at every moment, and you will find peace, even in sorrow, even in abandonment, even in contradictions . . .'
Many of us have our sorrows and contradictions. Some of us have been abandoned and rejected; even by our own, whether it's our families or loved ones, our employment, and even our Church! We all have run into difficulties which we could not overcome, and those around us, the supports that we thought we had, have failed us. Some of us suffer in silence, feeling helpless to act on our own. We wait in holy patience for it all to go away. Our Lady says this is a purification for us.
But Mother Mary inspires us to suffer in joy! How? By offering all your sufferings to Our Lady of Sorrows like a child makes to its mother and She will accept your gift and turn it into joy for you. Why? Because you will be united with Jesus on the Cross and Mother Mary at the foot of the Cross; your sufferings will become redemptive and used for the glory of the Father! Wow! Just imagine that. We will never be alone, never abandoned, never rejected, never contradicted, because we will be in the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, united closely with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The final word from Our Blessed Lady is that She will lead us, in love, in suffering, in the joy of the Cross! And through our suffering She will be able to act for the salvation of the world; She only asks for trust, prayer, simplicity, and silence . . . Could we have a better vocation than this? The vocation of suffering!
Roman Deacon
Now here's some great spirituality from Our Blessed Mother! That's why this MMP Blue Book is so important in the lives of Our Lady's devotees! Are you one? Let Mother Mary guide you and She will make sure you get to heaven! As She says to Fr. Gobbi, 'Let yourself be led by me at every moment, and you will find peace, even in sorrow, even in abandonment, even in contradictions . . .'
Many of us have our sorrows and contradictions. Some of us have been abandoned and rejected; even by our own, whether it's our families or loved ones, our employment, and even our Church! We all have run into difficulties which we could not overcome, and those around us, the supports that we thought we had, have failed us. Some of us suffer in silence, feeling helpless to act on our own. We wait in holy patience for it all to go away. Our Lady says this is a purification for us.
But Mother Mary inspires us to suffer in joy! How? By offering all your sufferings to Our Lady of Sorrows like a child makes to its mother and She will accept your gift and turn it into joy for you. Why? Because you will be united with Jesus on the Cross and Mother Mary at the foot of the Cross; your sufferings will become redemptive and used for the glory of the Father! Wow! Just imagine that. We will never be alone, never abandoned, never rejected, never contradicted, because we will be in the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, united closely with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The final word from Our Blessed Lady is that She will lead us, in love, in suffering, in the joy of the Cross! And through our suffering She will be able to act for the salvation of the world; She only asks for trust, prayer, simplicity, and silence . . . Could we have a better vocation than this? The vocation of suffering!
Roman Deacon
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