MARY'S HEART - FLOWERS
3. Your Own Crown.
This is the crown for your heart: a crown of thorns through sacrifice, through the mortification of your passions, to help you keep away from all sin. In this manner you will acquire negative purity, the first rose which can be expected to blossom forth from those thorns. And God, seeing you so well disposed, receptive of His grace, will generously pour Himself out into your heart.
Countless virtues will flourish in your heart, thereby rendering it similar to that of Jesus in the thorns of loving sacrifice; similar to the Heart of Mary in the roses of Her virtues now duplicated in your own soul.
Negative purity is essential. Through it in imitation of Our Lady you will cast sin away from your heart. Then positive purity will fill your soul with the grace of divine life; active purity will faithfully correspond to all graces.
Ask your Beloved Mother most insistently to assist you, to make you similar to Her in all virtues, but chiefly in Her immaculate purity. Suggest to Her that you want a crown of virtues similar to Her's and tell Her that you want above all that lily which blooms in the center of Her Immaculate Heart.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
This is the crown for your heart: a crown of thorns through sacrifice, through the mortification of your passions, to help you keep away from all sin. In this manner you will acquire negative purity, the first rose which can be expected to blossom forth from those thorns. And God, seeing you so well disposed, receptive of His grace, will generously pour Himself out into your heart.
Countless virtues will flourish in your heart, thereby rendering it similar to that of Jesus in the thorns of loving sacrifice; similar to the Heart of Mary in the roses of Her virtues now duplicated in your own soul.
Negative purity is essential. Through it in imitation of Our Lady you will cast sin away from your heart. Then positive purity will fill your soul with the grace of divine life; active purity will faithfully correspond to all graces.
Ask your Beloved Mother most insistently to assist you, to make you similar to Her in all virtues, but chiefly in Her immaculate purity. Suggest to Her that you want a crown of virtues similar to Her's and tell Her that you want above all that lily which blooms in the center of Her Immaculate Heart.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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