SANCTITY
3. Your Sanctity.
Now you should focus the problem of your own sanctity. You might not have taken it to heart as if it were not the will of God in your regard also. Imprint this truth on your mind: God most earnestly wants your sanctification. But do you also want it? Theoretically, perhaps, you may have repeated many times "Yes"; but when will you utter your decision in a definite manner? God wants it and shows it very clearly through the graces He pours on you.
He shows it by the real sanctity that He has conferred on you, since your soul has been sanctified by the infusion of sanctifying grace in baptism, in the Sacrament of penance and in Holy Communion where He gives Himself to you totally. And did you really decide to sanctify yourself? Do you show it through the moral sanctity of your heart, your actions, your correspondence to the divine love?
You have seen Our Lady, as a model of all virtues. You might have been able to imitate some of them in order to have some resemblance to Your Mother. see Her now crowned with the divine halo of sanctity. She is your model, not in the extraordinary grace that God granted Her but in Her own sanctity, achieved through Her correspondence to grace. God has gathered in Her all that He scattered on the other saints. Pray to Mary to have a share also. If you knew how to study and copy Mary, how to have recourse to Her, to love Her and be faithful and constant in this love, with Her and through Her you will certainly save your soul and become a saint.
Now you should focus the problem of your own sanctity. You might not have taken it to heart as if it were not the will of God in your regard also. Imprint this truth on your mind: God most earnestly wants your sanctification. But do you also want it? Theoretically, perhaps, you may have repeated many times "Yes"; but when will you utter your decision in a definite manner? God wants it and shows it very clearly through the graces He pours on you.
He shows it by the real sanctity that He has conferred on you, since your soul has been sanctified by the infusion of sanctifying grace in baptism, in the Sacrament of penance and in Holy Communion where He gives Himself to you totally. And did you really decide to sanctify yourself? Do you show it through the moral sanctity of your heart, your actions, your correspondence to the divine love?
You have seen Our Lady, as a model of all virtues. You might have been able to imitate some of them in order to have some resemblance to Your Mother. see Her now crowned with the divine halo of sanctity. She is your model, not in the extraordinary grace that God granted Her but in Her own sanctity, achieved through Her correspondence to grace. God has gathered in Her all that He scattered on the other saints. Pray to Mary to have a share also. If you knew how to study and copy Mary, how to have recourse to Her, to love Her and be faithful and constant in this love, with Her and through Her you will certainly save your soul and become a saint.
AVE MARIA!
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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