May 1 - First day of "Mary's Month" and Memorial of her husband "St. Joseph the Worker"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

How beautiful! The Church has chosen to put both Mary and Joseph before us today to help us grow in holiness!

Men and women created in God’s Image and Likeness are both called to become Holy as God is Holy in the perfection of Charity. God in His great Love contiuned to love the first man and woman even after they listened to the lies of satan and they committed the “original sin” disobeying God’s command not to eat of the fruit from the tree.

Ah, but as today’s Gospel reminds us:

“For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (Jn 3:16)

The gift of our Baptism is a priceless gift which takes us out of darkness of the original sin inherited from our first parents and incorporates us into the Body of Christ: we are truly born again by water and the Holy Spirit. We become children of God and heirs of heaven. Our journey toward our eternal home begins!

We also are now in a special way “Mary’s children”, since Jesus gave her to us from His Cross and Mary’s husband Joseph has become our protector. St. Joseph now is Guardian and Protector of the Church as He was guardian for Jesus and protected Mary on earth. Would that more families had more devotion to the Holy Family!

Let us thank God for those men and women who have a close relationship with Mary and Joseph and the Child Jesus and are seeking today even in a very secular culture to form families in the love shared by in the Holy Family of Nazareth.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the Hearts of Your Faithful. Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love.
Jesus, we trust in You! Mary, Mother and Model for the Church, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us all and especially for the Ordained Clergy, seminarians and those men in the laity who are either natural fathers of Families or spiritual fathers to children whose fathers are decesed or otherwise unknown to them.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear CajunJoy, Bassmansteiny, Greenfields, and Salibi,

Thank you all for giving your “hearts” to this post. I began today with Chapter 1 and posted a few quotes. The Word-limit on CAF prevented me from inlucing more than I quoted but I hope readers, like yourselves may take some time with this little book and find much to ponder.

God’s Word is such an “Unappreciated Treasure” in our world today – perhaps it has always been, but for us who have been baptized and incorporated into the Body of Christ, and have so recently renewed our Baptismal Promises, we need to be more grateful. Little St. Therese said so wisely – “Everything is Grace” and she is right, yet how many of us ask for grace? How many squander grace? How many of us take the time to listen to God speaking to us in the Truth of His Word?

May these days after Easter be “new” in our resolve to grow in Christ, through Mary. Hopefully you’ll continue to read the threads and even more to read the online version of “The Love of Eternal Wisdom” by St. Louis Marue De Monfort HERE