[MaryVitamin] The Poverty of Bethlehem

Mary Vitamin for December 29th

 

Topic:  The Poverty of Bethlehem

 

Quote:

St. Alphonsus di Liguori

 "The gifts received from the holy Magi cannot certainly have been of small value; but we are assured by Saint Bernard that she distributed them to the poor through the hands of Saint Joseph….Mary herself said to saint Bridget, 'All that I could get I gave to the poor and only reserved a little food and clothing for myself.'"

St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books: 1978), 491.

 

Meditation:

St. Francis de Sales

"The more one mortifies his natural inclinations, the more he becomes capable of receiving the divine inspirations, and the more he gains in virtue."

 

St. Vincent de Paul

"Whoever makes little account of exterior mortifications, alleging that the interior are more perfect, shows clearly that he is not mortified at all, either exteriorly or interiorly."

A Year with the Saints (Tan Books)

 

Resolution:

Today, while I am working, I will reflect on the voluntary poverty that Our Lord and Our Lady lived. Poverty indicates a life of strenuous and never ending hard work. I will remember Our Lady's hard work and that she chose it, accepted it without complaining, and in fact loved it because the Blessed Virgin Mary was conformed to God's Will. This is the lesson taught in the cave at Bethlehem.

 

Marian Vow:

St. Maximilian Kolbe

"One who is consecrated knows that in the Immaculate Virgin and through the

Immaculate Virgin one will, in the quickest and easiest possible way, become one with Jesus, one with God.  He knows that in and through him She will love Jesus in a matchless, perfect manner, in whatever one may seek to do, whatever be the way... He knows that this is the only way to that sanctity which is the easiest and most sublime, tending to God's greatest glory"

Traccia Mariana

 

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

 

Thanks be to God for graces received.

 

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

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