[MaryVitamin] helps us to love God

Mary Vitamin for June 16^th

 

Topic: Our Lady helps us to love God

 

Quote:

Our Lady at Fatima

Do not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already so much offended.

October 13, 1917

 

Meditation:

Sr. Lucia interprets the meaning of Our Lady's words at

  

Fatima in her book, Calls From the Message of Fatima.

 

But we must not think that, in order to respond fully to the implications of the Message and of the precept of love, it is sufficient to avoid sin in order not to offend God. This is undoubtedly the first step, but it is not enough. If we were to be cold, indifferent or neglectful in our attitude to our father, our mother or anyone to whom we are beholden in some way, it goes without saying that we are being unjust and ungrateful to this person and so offending them. 

 

The same is true of God, who is more than a Father to us: we offend Him by our coldness, our forgetfulness, our indifference and our carelessness; we are behaving in an ungrateful way towards Him, like someone who does not recognize his or her principal Benefactor, the One to whom we owe most.

From the chapter: The Call to Stop Offending God

 

Resolution:

Has a coldness or indifference crept into my life? Have I been satisfied with simply avoiding sin but not going any further in love for God and neighbor? Responding to Our Lady's call at Fatima, I will look around at my immediate family or at my workplace to reach out to someone I can see. I will do this for love of and in honor of the God I cannot see.

 

Marian Vow:

Fr. Gabriel Allegra, O.F.M.

In the presence of Mary's thorn-crowned Heart, we ask, "What do these thorns signify?" And, if we pause to consider, we will at once understand the terrible answer, "And this is the crown which those children of the faith prepare for me when they are unfaithful to their baptismal promises and go over to the camp of the enemy of the Savior."

Mary's Immaculate Heart, A Way to God

 (Franciscan Herald Press: 1985).

 

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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