Chapter 1 of a "treasured little book"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Yesterday I posted my hope to share some passages from the book, “The Love of Eternal Wisdom” during this Month of Mary. Perhaps some of you read that post, if not see HERE.

It is in the last chapter, that he writes on a “Tender and True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”. The book itself is based on the Old Testament, Book of Wisdom and is written to show us Jesus as our Life.

CHAPTER ONE

TO LOVE AND SEEK DIVINE WISDOM WE NEED TO KNOW HIM

[1. Our need to acquire knowledge of divine Wisdom]

1. Can we love someone we do not even know? Can we love deeply someone we know only vaguely? Why is Jesus, the adorable, eternal and incarnate Wisdom loved so little if not because he is either too little known or not known at all? Hardly anyone studies the supreme science of Jesus, as did St. Paul (Eph. 3:19). And yet this is the most noble, the most consoling, the most useful and the most vital of all sciences and subjects in heaven and on earth.
2. 1. First, it is the most noble of all sciences because its subject is the most noble and the most sublime: Wisdom uncreated and incarnate. He possesses in himself the fullness of divinity and humanity alike and all that is great in heaven and on earth, namely, all creatures visible and invisible, spiritual and corporal. St. John Chrysostom says that our Lord is the summary of all God’s works, the epitome of all the perfections to be found in God and in his creatures (cf. Col. 1:16; 2:9). “Jesus Christ is everything that you can and should wish for. Long for him, seek for him, because he is that unique and precious pearl for which you should be ready to sell everything you possess.” “Let the wise man boast no more of his wisdom nor the strong man of his strength, nor the rich man of his wealth. But if anyone wants to boast, let him boast only of understanding and knowing me and nothing else (Jer. 9:23-24).”

In reading the entire chapter yesterday, which you’d be blessed also to read in it’s entirety, HERE, I was again blessed with these words from paragraph 11:

1. 1. This knowledge of eternal Wisdom is not only the most noble and the most consoling of all, it is also the most useful and the most necessary since eternal life consists in knowing God and Jesus Christ, His Son (Jn. 17:3).

…To know Jesus Christ incarnate Wisdom, is to know all we need. To presume to know everything and not know Him is to know nothing at all…

Mary our Mother is also the Model for the Church. Mary listened and kept all Jesus said and did pondering all in her heart in following her Son on this earth. So must we if we are to be like her united with the Trinity in heaven in the perfection of Charity.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the Hearts of Your Faithful, kindle in us, the Fire of Your Love! Fill us as you filled Mary with Jesus, our Way, our Truth and our Life!