Topic: Where is my heart?
Quote:
Our Lady at Fatima
June 13, 1917
My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.
Meditation:
St. Francis de Sales offers advice on how to examine our hearts so that we may learn to turn to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Consider how generous your heart is, and that as nothing corrupt can allure bees, which linger only over sweet flowers, so your heart can find no repose save in God alone, and can be subject to no creature. Resolutely call to mind the most attractive and delightful amusement which once filled your heart, and see whether they were not full of disquieting fears, anxious thoughts, and importunate cares, amidst which your poor heart was wretched. Alas! When our heart seeks the things of the flesh, it pursues them eagerly, expecting in them to satisfy its longings; but as soon as it finds them it also finds that it has to begin again, and that nothing can satisfy it. For God has ordained that our heart should no more find a resting-place than did Noah’s dove, in order that it may return unto its God, whence it came forth. What natural beauty is there in our heart?
St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, (Tan Books), 306.
Resolution:
Today I will ask myself at least one time today during a quiet time or a time filled with problems:
Where is my heart?
I will strive to turn to Our Lady and find my refuge in the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Marian Vow:
St. John Eudes (d.1680), although considered one of the saints of the Sacred Heart, also offers valuable insights into the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In his book, The Admirable Heart of Mary, St. John Eudes includes words spoken by Our Lord to the Benedictine, St. Melchtide, around the year 1300.
I have given the heart of my incomparable Mother to you as a holy rule that will enable you to become saints if you faithfully observe it. … By this rule you must measure the holiness that should permeate all your actions, the sentiments and affections that should fill your hearts….I have given her heart to you as a vast ocean of graces of every kind from which you must draw the graces you need at every hour, every moment, every place and every occasion.
St. John Eudes, the Admirable Heart of Mary, (Loreto Publications), 114
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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