First week continuing, on Day 17

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Today we continue in our seeking of humility, which is true self knowledge. At the website for this journey of 33 Days toward Total Consecration, we are given prayers and some suggested readings from the Imitation of Christ and from the Gospel of Luke, to help us. See HERE.

Today’s Mass Reading are especially helpful to me in that the Gospel points us to Love. That, it seems to me, is the ultimate aim of our journey: it is because we are seeking to love Jesus and Mary more, that we ask the Holy Spirit to reveal ourselves to us. We want to repent of our sins and learn to become meek and humble of Heart as are Jesus and Mary. A commentary on the Commandment to love by Bl.Teresa of Calcutta:

Friday of the Third week of Lent
Commentary of the day
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), founder of the Missionary Sisters of Charity
Something Beautiful for God (rev.)

The commandment to love

“You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul and with your whole mind.” This is the commandment of the great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer and sacrifice, by an intense inner life…

If there are no limits it is because God is love (1Jn 4,8) and love is God. What binds us to God is truly a relationship of love. And since God’s love is infinite, to participate in it is to love and to give until it costs. That is why it is not so much a question of what we do as of the love we put into it, the love we put into what we give. That, too, is why people who know neither how to give nor receive love are the poorest of the poor no matter how great their wealth.

 

[Chantal25]

(((Thank you)))

There is a beautiful prayer for mothers and it is all about humility.

Blessings!

 

[MariaChristi]

(((Thank you)))

There is a beautiful prayer for mothers and it is all about humility.

Blessings!

Dear Chantal,

Thanks for your reply. Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a beautiful example of how God created women to be mothers - some may be mothers physically and some spiritually and some can be both, but the love that each human mother gives, like the love each human father gives is a special reflection of God’s Love for all His children.