MARY'S HEART - MOTHER'S HEART
4. Your Filial Heart.
If you are to follow God's plans, if you are not to be a false note in the harmony of the divine work of redemption, you must have a filial heart towards the Mother whom God has assigned to you. It would be absurd to expect Our Lady to love us with the heart of a mother since such was the plan of God whilst dispensing ourselves from loving Her as dutiful children. It would be monstrous on our part not to love Her just because we are not prepared to meet the sacrifices it demands. If that were so, what name should we deserve?
And yet this frightful supposition, monstrous though it be, is often a reality. Take a look into your heart and see whether it confirms this sad truth. A child who does not love his mother is to us something unnatural, abnormal and monstrous. Nor is it different in the case of Our Mother in Heaven.
Scrutinize your heart and see whether such monstrous ingratitude nestles there. See if in practice you are always ready for sacrifice or whether you have to regret, in the past, compromises made or cowardice or lack of generosity. Ask pardon from Her, brace yourself for the struggle. Draw closer to that fire, the Heart of your Mother. Warm yourself, burn up your self-love, your sensuality, your every passion which keeps you away from it. Anyone who does not love Jesus Christ let him be accursed, St. Paul exclaims. Something similar should be said about our love for Mary. The one who has no filial love for Mary, who disavows that sweet maternity of Our Heavenly Mother will be eternally accursed.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
4. Your Filial Heart.
If you are to follow God's plans, if you are not to be a false note in the harmony of the divine work of redemption, you must have a filial heart towards the Mother whom God has assigned to you. It would be absurd to expect Our Lady to love us with the heart of a mother since such was the plan of God whilst dispensing ourselves from loving Her as dutiful children. It would be monstrous on our part not to love Her just because we are not prepared to meet the sacrifices it demands. If that were so, what name should we deserve?
And yet this frightful supposition, monstrous though it be, is often a reality. Take a look into your heart and see whether it confirms this sad truth. A child who does not love his mother is to us something unnatural, abnormal and monstrous. Nor is it different in the case of Our Mother in Heaven.
Scrutinize your heart and see whether such monstrous ingratitude nestles there. See if in practice you are always ready for sacrifice or whether you have to regret, in the past, compromises made or cowardice or lack of generosity. Ask pardon from Her, brace yourself for the struggle. Draw closer to that fire, the Heart of your Mother. Warm yourself, burn up your self-love, your sensuality, your every passion which keeps you away from it. Anyone who does not love Jesus Christ let him be accursed, St. Paul exclaims. Something similar should be said about our love for Mary. The one who has no filial love for Mary, who disavows that sweet maternity of Our Heavenly Mother will be eternally accursed.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please no anonymous comments. I require at least some way for people to address each other personally and courteously. Having some name or handle helps.
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.