At the age of twelve the Son of God, sitting among the doctors, questioned them with such wisdom that all His hearers were filled with admiration. After this incident the gospel makes no mention of Him until His baptism when He was thirty years old. He then retired into the desert, abstaining from food and drink for forty days. There He fought the devil and vanquished him.
After this He began to preach in Judea, choosing His apostles and working all the miracles related in the gospels. I need only mention that Jesus during the third year of his public preaching and at the age of thirty-three, raised Lazarus from the dead, made His triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the 29th day of March, and on the 2nd day of April which was Thursday, the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan, celebrated the Pasch with his disciples, washed the feet of the apostles and instituted the sacrament of the holy Eucharist under the species of bread and wine.
On the evening of this day He was apprehended by His enemies with Judas the traitor at their head. The next day, 3rd April, even though it was a feast-day of the Jews, He was condemned to death after being scourged, crowned with thorns, and treated most shamefully. That same day He was led to Calvary and nailed to a cross between two criminals. The God of all innocence thus chose to die the most shameful of all deaths and undergo the torments which should have been incurred by a robber named Barabbas whom the Jews had preferred to Him. The ancient Fathers believed that Jesus was attached to the cross by four nails and that there was in the middle of the cross a wooden support on which His body rested.
After languishing for three hours, the Saviour of the world died at the age of thirty-three. Joseph of Arimathea had the courage to ask Pilate for the body and laid it in a new sepulchre which he had built. We must not forget that nature showed its sorrow at the death of its maker by many marvellous happenings which took place at the moment of His death. He rose from the dead on the fifth day of April and appeared several times to His Mother and His disciples during forty days. On Thursday, 14th May, He took His disciples to Mount Olivet and there in their presence, by His own power He ascended into heaven to take His place at the right hand of His Father, leaving on this earth the imprint of His sacred feet.
He wrote only the briefest sketch of Incarnate Wisdom’s life on earth, but I believe St. Louis de Montfort wrote and gave missions to all who were seeking to know God. I believe he gave what God gave him the grace to share.
We may have some difficulties with the translation of his French into our language or his style of writing but I believe God blesses tall who seek to Love Divine Wisdom as St. Louis learned to love Him especially through the intercession of Mary.
God willing we begin Chap. 10, tomorrow, the great Feast of Pentecost! Our Lady of Light, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, pray for us.
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