"The Love of Eternal Wisdom" - Chap. 2 (cont'd)

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

There is much to be learned from this little book – especially in these days after Easter. Why? Because we are called to live in Christ – Christ risen from the dead! Do we really know Him? Let us hear again words from Chap. 1:

1. Can we love someone we do not even know? Can we love deeply someone we know only vaguely? Why is Jesus, the adorable, eternal and incarnate Wisdom loved so little if not because he is either too little known or not known at all? Hardly anyone studies the supreme science of Jesus, as did St. Paul (Eph. 3:19). And yet this is the most noble, the most consoling, the most useful and the most vital of all sciences and subjects in heaven and on earth.

In Chap. 2 we have begun to learn more, and today we continue learning Jesus:

1. He is the substantial and eternal idea of divine beauty which was shown to St. John the Evangelist in his ecstatic vision on the island of Patmos, when he exclaimed, “In the beginning was the Word - the Son of God, or eternal Wisdom -and the Word was in God and the Word was God” (Jn. 1:1)…
2. God the Father was well pleased with the sovereign beauty of eternal Wisdom, His Son, throughout time and eternity, as He himself explicitly testified on the day of His Son’s baptism and His transfiguration, “This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased” (Mt. 17:5; cf. Mt. 3:17. Cf. Nos. 55, 98). This splendour of dazzling and incomprehensible light of which the apostles caught a glimpse in the Transfiguration, filled them with delight and lifted them to the heights of ecstasy: This eternal Wisdom is – Something resplendent, Sublime, immense, and infinite, More ancient than the universe. My words fail to give even the faintest idea of His beauty and supreme gentleness, and fall infinitely short of His excellence: for who can ever form an adequate idea of Him? Who could ever portray Him faithfully? You alone, great God, know who He is and can reveal Him to all you wish (cf. Mt. 11:27; Lk. 10:22).

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. The Father and Son have sent you to bring us into All Truth - that is to know Jesus Who is our Way, our Truth and Our Life. How can we live His Life without Your help? Mary, Mother of the Church intercede for us, that we may learn to live as you did on this earth, remaining in Him.

“O Jesus, living in Mary, come and live in your servants, in the spirit of holiness, in the fullness of your power, in the perfection of your ways, in the truth of your virtues, in the communion of your mysteries. Rule over every adverse power, in your Spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen.” – Prayer of Fr. Jean Jacques Olier, S.S. (1608-1657)