[MaryVitamin] sanctification of work

 

Mary Vitamin for April 29th

 

Topic: Our Lady's perfect example of sanctification of work

 

Quote:

Sr. Maria Francesca Perillo, FI

In serving St. Joseph, and later Her Son Jesus, She was never guilty of neglect or of an oversight. But such perfect accomplishment of Her daily work did not in any way compromise Her interior recollection: She was always absorbed in the thought of God and His perfections.

Sr. Maria Francesca Perillo, FI, "The Life of the Mother of God"

Missio Immaculatae International (magazine available by subscription through the Franciscans of the Immaculate)

January 2006 edition

 

Meditation:

Fr. Boylan

If we pause occasionally between our acts and just kneel before God in a state of sincere resignation to His will, it will often happen that we find it possible and profitable to remain in this disposition for a short while. It this be the case, let us be assured that then we are really praying, for we are making acts of faith, of hope, and of charity, we are pleasing God, and silently begging His grace and mercy. …One advantage of this [type] of prayer is that it becomes easier to extend it into one’s working hours. This is a tremendous advance towards the solution of perhaps the most important problem in our sanctification: the sanctification of our day’s work. If we have sanctified our work we have sanctified ourselves.

Fr. Boylan, 

Difficulties in Mental Prayer, (Roman Catholic Books), 38.

 

Resolution:

I will try this today. One time, I will pause in my day's work, unobserved and kneel before God in a state of sincere resignation to His will.  I will also pray to be like Our Lady in Nazareth attending her duties yet all the while recollected in the thoughts of God.

 

Marian Vow:

From the Marian Seraphic Pathways,

Plan of Marian Life for FTI

On Prayer

An evangelical life organized according to the holy Gospel and totally animated by seraphic love for God and neighbor, after the example of the Seraphic Father and the Franciscan Saints, has to be constantly sustained by “vigilance and prayer” (cf. Mt 26,41), centered daily about the Eucharist and the rosary, committed to the Liturgy of the Hours and meditation, absorbed in recollection and prayer of intercession for the Church and for souls, ever one with the Virgin at Prayer.

 

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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