Good Shepherd Sunday - " The Love of Eternal Wisdom"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

How truly St. Louis de Montfort loves Jesus through Mary, writing his treatise on “The Love of Eternal Wisdom”. Today’s Gospel on the Good Shepherd is close to the insights God gave to him as he wrote:

1. I seem to see this lovable Sovereign convoking and assembling the most holy Trinity, a second time, so to speak, for the purpose of rehabilitating man in the state he formerly created him (cf. Gen. 1:26). We can picture a kind of contest going on in this grand council between eternal Wisdom and God’s justice.
2. I seem to hear eternal Wisdom, in his plea on behalf of man, admit that because of his sin man and all his descendants deserve to be condemned and to spend all eternity with the rebel angels. Still, man should be pitied because he sinned more through ignorance and weakness than through malice. He points out that it would be a pity if such an exquisite masterpiece were to become the slave of the devil for ever, and millions upon millions of men were to be lost eternally, through the sin of only one man. Besides, eternal Wisdom draws attention to the places left vacant by the fall of the apostate angels. Would it not be fitting to fill these places? And would not God receive great glory in time and in eternity if man were saved?
3. It seems to me that I hear the God of justice replying that the sentence of death and eternal damnation has been pronounced against man and his descendants, and it must be carried out without pardon or mercy, just as happened in the case of Lucifer and his followers. Man has shown himself ungrateful for the gifts he received, has followed the devil in pride and disobedience and should therefore follow him in his punishment, for sin must necessarily be punished.
4. Eternal Wisdom seeing that nothing on earth can expiate man’s sin, that nothing can satisfy divine justice and appease God’s anger and still, wishing to save unfortunate man whom He cannot help loving, finds a wonderful way of accomplishing this. Wonder of wonders! With boundless and incomprehensible love, this tender-hearted Lord offers to comply with His justice, to calm the divine anger, to rescue us from the slavery of the devil and from the flames of hell, and to merit for us eternal happiness.

We can never thank God enough for His Mercy! He has put enmity between Mary and satan to give us a “purely human” model to the Church for following Christ our Savior. We can never love Eternal Wisdom enough for His Great Love! Come Holy Spirit, fill us with the Fire of You Love ! Mary, Mother of Mercy, pray for us.

 

[Greenfields]

HappyMothers Day to Our Lady ray:t2::rose:Celebrating in Australia and America this Sunday

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Greenfields,

Thanks for your sweet wishes to Our Lady. Yes, I thanked God for Mary this Morning at Mass. I’m also grateful to St. Louis de Montfort for his words on Mary in his Supplement to True Devotion in which he shares insights regarding this devotion at Holy Communion:

… Implore Mary to lend you her heart so that you may receive her Son with her dispositions. Remind her that her Son’s glory requires that He should not come into a heart so sullied and fickle as your own, which could not fail to diminish His glory and might cause Him to leave. Tell her that if she will take up her abode in you to receive her Son - which she can do because of the sovereignty she has over all hearts - He will be received by her in a perfect manner without danger of being affronted or being forced to depart. “God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved.”

Tell her with confidence that all you have given her of your possessions is little enough to honour her, but that in Holy Communion you wish to give her the same gifts as the eternal Father gave her. Thus she will feel more honoured than if you gave her all the wealth in the world. Tell her, finally, that Jesus, whose love for her is unique, still wishes to take His delight and His repose in her even in your soul, even though it is poorer and less clean than the stable which he readily entered because she was there. Beg her to lend you her heart, saying, “O Mary, I take you for my all; give me your heart.” … (from Paragraph 266)

The full "supplement can be read in Paragraphs 266 - 273 in the online version of “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” HERE

 

[Gertabelle]

I love this prayer asking Our Mother to lend me her heart.

Sadly, I am not always able to receive Holy Communion. A thought occurred to me, however, as to whether I might make the same request when making a spiritual communion.

What do you think?