A couple of years back, my dear husband and I started the Total Consecration to Jesus Christ through Mary in the way of Louis De Montfort. Mid way through we lost steam and didn't finish. I've been feeling such a need to be born again in Mary's spiritual womb, that I've decided to start the journey again. What a great way to get ready for lent! So today, I began my journey through Mary to Jesus once more.
It is no mistake that the first 12 days are spent on ridding oneself of the 'spirit of the age'. We are infected with the world's ideas, norms, images and stilted morality. I like so many of you suffered through years of secular poison infiltrating my being. It has taken a lot of prayer and study to learn the lessons that all saints seem to understand; that the path to peace is through and with Jesus. I yearn to become a slave for the Lord. One that does his will and doesn't worry about 'the world'. Of course I get sucked back in through media, work problems, my children and my own disordered desires. At this crucial juncture in time and space, I think we all sense the dangerous path that our society and our government have chosen. As we run counter to the current tide of religious intolerance, false morality and the dictatorship of relativism, sometimes we feel like we're salmon swimming upstream. Thank God for all of you to help me cut through the tide of filth to the shores of beauty.
Here is the scripture on which today's meditation is based:
Sacrifice of Body and Mind.1* I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.a2Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.b
Here is St. Louis De Monfort Meditation:
St. Louis de
Montfort SM:#3
Chosen soul,
living image of God and redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, God
wants you to be holy like him in this life, and glorious like him in the next..
It is certain that growth in holiness is you vocation. All your thoughts,
words, and actions, everything you suffer or undertake must lead you to that end.
Otherwise, you are resisting God in not doing the work for which he created you
and for which even now he is keeping you in being. What a marvelous
transformation is possible! Dust into light, uncleanness into purity,
sinfulness into holiness, creature into Creator, man into God! A marvelous
work, I repeat, so difficult in itself, even impossible for a mere creature to
bring about, for only God can accomplish it by giving his grace abundantly and
in an extraordinary manner. The very creation of the universe is not as great
an achievement as this.
Every line makes me pause "Chosen soul"... Oh how those words make me tremble. I am a chosen soul. Chosen by God himself to do His work. Made in the image and likeness of the Lord himself...that's me. Why do I forget that so often? And how precious am I, that I am redeemed by the most precious blood of Jesus Christ. I savor the words "it is certain that growth in holiness is your vocation". Can it be? Can my vocation be to grow in holiness? What a wondrous vocation! I have been resisting God and I have long put off the work for which he created me.
Dear Lord,
I am yours. I am the clay and you are the potter. There is nothing I can make of myself that you can't make better. Take me and form me Lord. That I may do your work, mirror your love to others and become who you created me to be. I feel you preparing me to receive you more fully and it scares me a little, but if your sweet mother would walk this path with me, I will not feel afraid.
AMEN!
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