[MaryVitamin] go to the hill of Tepeyac

 

Mary Vitamin for December 12^th

 

Topic: Go to the Hill of Tepeyac

Our Lady of Guadalupe - Dec 12

 

Quote:

Our Lady to St. Juan Diego

"Climb, my son the least, to the top of the hill; there where you saw me and I gave you orders, you will find different flowers. Cut them, gather them, assemble them, then come and bring them before my presence."

 

Meditation:

"[T]he Lady asks Juan Diego to go to the top of the hill and to cut the flowers he finds there. Now Juan Diego must climb the hill and cut, gather and bring the flowers as an intermediary. He is astonished by all the blooming, open flowers of every kind, lovely and beautiful, when it was not their season."

 

 Juan Diego reminded the Bishop that the hill was not a place for growing flowers, but a place for meeting God: there were many 'rocks, thistles, thorns, cacti and mesquites.' In the midst of this dry, pain-filled land, new life flowered again, just as through the message of Guadalupe, the indigenous people were renewed in their hope and celebration of life."

Sr. Rosa Maria Incasa, C.C.V.I. "Symbolism in the Dialogue"

Handbook on Guadalupe (Academy of the Immaculate: 1996), 123-4.

 

Resolution:

When faced with difficult people or trials, we often do not see the flowers in the midst of that desert. But, today, at least one time, I will look upon a situation in which virtue is required (patience, long suffering, humility) and see myself before Our Lady. She is telling me to "go to the hill of Tepeyac to pick some flowers." The flowers will be my acts of virtue.

 

The dew on these flowers represents the life giving water of Christ that will descend upon my soul. The fragrance is the effect that unseen acts of virtue produce in the soul which in turn affects the world.

 

Marian Vow:

Returning to Our Lady and allowing her to arrange the flowers of virtue in my Tilma is the same as giving over all my good deeds into her hands so that she may arrange them according to her desires. When she is finished she will leave her image imprinted upon the Tilma of my soul.

"To be a 'docile instrument' in the hands of the Immaculate, to be her 'thing and property'' means to give up the right ever to dispose of oneself in anything and for anything. Time and space, wakefulness and repose, joy and sorrows, present and future...: all is Hers only and ought to serve Her for the supreme glory of God and for the eternal salvation of souls."

Marian Seraphic Pathways, Directory #37

 

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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