"... Mary obtains for them the heavenly Father's blessing..."

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Continuing the story of Rebecca and her son Jacob, and seeing them as as prefigures of Mary and Jesus in St. Louis de Montfort’s, “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” :

1. 5) Finally, Mary obtains for them the heavenly Father’s blessing. As they are the youngest born and adopted, they are not really entitled to it. Clad in new, precious, and sweet-smelling garments, with body and soul well-prepared and dressed, they confidently approach their heavenly Father. He hears their voice and recognises it as the voice of a sinner. He feels their hands covered with skins, inhales the aroma of their garments. He partakes with joy of what Mary, their Mother, has prepared for Him, recognising in it the merits and good odor of His Son and His Blessed Mother.

a) He gives them a twofold blessing, the blessing of the dew of heaven, namely, divine grace, which is the seed of glory. “God has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing,” and also the blessing of the fertility of the earth, for as a provident Father, He gives them their daily bread and an ample supply of the goods of the earth.

b) He makes them masters of their other brothers, the reprobate sinners. This domination does not always show in this fleeting world, where sinners often have the upper hand. “How long shall the wicked glory, mouthing insolent reproaches?” “I have seen the wicked triumphant and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon.” But the supremacy of the just is real and will be seen clearly for all eternity in the next world, where the just, as the Holy Spirit tells us, will dominate and command all peoples.

c) The God of all majesty is not satisfied with blessing them in their persons and their possessions, He blesses all who bless them and curses all who curse and persecute them.

Come Holy Spirit, open the ears of our hearts, that we may hear and love the Truth you bring us on this Saturday and the Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, called the “Mother Church” in Rome. It too is a “sign for us” helping us to appreciate Mary as Mother and Model for the Church. Help us, Holy Spirit to “see” with the eyes of Faith – strengthen in us the Supernatural Faith given us in Baptism. Enable us to continue asking, to receive, seeking to find, and knocking on the door that you may open for us. (cf Mt. 7:7-11)

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Stephie and Wm777,

Thank you both for your “faithful hearts”. Totus Tuus!