Mary Vitamin for August 18th
Topic: What makes the Birth of Our Lord part of the Joys of Our Lady?
Quote:
Father Faber
Finally, when Mary beheld him trembling with the cold, and discerned the pathetic sadness which mingled with the brightness, and perhaps saw him weeping human tears, she worshipped Him whose eternal life was an unspeakable beatitude. She recognized in him the uncreated fountain of all created joy.
Bethlehem
, (Tan Books:1978), 145.
Meditation:
"Come," says my heart, "seek God's face; your face Lord, do I seek!"
Psalm 27:8
Father Faber continues,
Thus also to the Mother's eye his littleness magnified his immensity. He seemed all the more illimitable, because he was so small. He lay upon her veil a mere span of fair human life; but she knew that in truth he was outstretched beyond all possible spheres of imaginary space. She adored the omnipresence of that tiny prisoner, whom a delicate frame of flesh and blood was not containing. For nine months she herself had compassed the Incomprehensible, and now she saw as it were with her bodily eyes the immensity which had lain so long like an unopened flower in her own virginal bosom.
Father Faber, Bethlehem, (Tan Books:1978), 145.
Resolution:
Today, I will pray the seven joys of Our Lady (or the Joyful Mysteries) and reflect on the birth of the Lord. In the Birth of our Lord, Our Lady finally saw with her own eyes, the Messiah she had longed for and saw with the eyes of faith. She sees in life what the rest of us see only in death.
Marian Vow:
St. Maximilian Kolbe
There is one primary and essential condition: that those whose duty it is to labor [in Cities of the Immaculate] should themselves give the example. To understand this spirit they themselves must consecrate themselves to her with no restrictions. They themselves first of all must belong to her and live out their unlimited consecration to her, draw the bonds of love uniting them to her more tightly, become one with her so that she may act through them and in their souls. This is the essential condition. She will act through them only in the degree to which they belong to her. Therefore nothing can remain that comes from themselves. They must belong to her limitlessly.
Fr. Anselm W. Romb, OFM Conv., The Kolbe Reader, (Franciscan Marytown Press: 1987), 98.
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
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