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Sunday, August 12, 2007

THE HEART OF OUR LADY

3. Mary's Heart.
The tempter might tell you that this is just a fine theory, quite out of reach for everyone. Let your answer be the keeping of the Most Pure Heart of Mary before your eyes. There you find theory brought to splendid practice. There you have the model which God gives us not for mere admiration but for imitation too.

In the Heart of Mary there is found the fulfillment of the most harmonious order since all Her thoughts, desires, activities down to the most insignificant movement were in Her wonderfully orderly.

Every imperfection and fault is a disorder and in the Heart of Mary there never was even the slightest fault or shadow of disorder. Her will, Her intelligence, Her memory, Her senses, all in Her was submitted to that supreme rule of the human heart: "Man has been created for the purpose of praising, revering and serving the divine majesty of God."

We could apply to Our Blessed Lady that challenge of Christ: Who can convict me of sin? Who could find any disorder in the Heart of Our Lady?

Unity of thoughts, of affections, of intentions; Her Heart was always united to that of Jesus, the only goal of Her actions.

The Heart of Jesus requested St. Margaret to unite her intentions to those of His Divine Heart, since in this way the slightest actions would deserve torrents of graces. We can then imagine how Mary would have brought about this unification of Her life, of Her intentions and of Her Heart with the Heart of Her divine Son. And if it was said of the Son of Mary that He did all things well, the same should be said of Mary on account of this simplicity of Her heart and this perfect union with the Heart of Jesus.

Request Your good Mother to give you the grace to imitate this unity so that your heart may not be divided amongst creatures but rather kept whole and united with the Heart of the Divine Saviour through Her.

[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]

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‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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