"... the tenderness of a spouse and the kindliness of a friend..."

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We continue St. Louis de Montfort’s book, “The Love of Eternal Wisdom” Chap.11:
  1. Read the accounts of his apparitions and you will see that when Wisdom incarnate and glorified showed Himself to His friends, He did not appear accompanied by thunder and lightning but in a kindly and gentle manner. He did not assume the majesty of a King or of the Lord of hosts, but the tenderness of a spouse and the kindliness of a friend. On some occasions he has shown himself in the Blessed Sacrament, but I cannot remember having read that he ever did so otherwise than in the form of a gentle and beautiful child.
  2. Not long ago an unhappy man, enraged because he had lost all his money at gambling, drew his sword against heaven, blaming our Lord for the loss of his money. Then, instead of thunderbolts and fiery darts falling upon this man, there came fluttering down from the sky a little piece of paper. Quite taken aback, he caught the paper, opened it and read, “O God, have mercy on me.” The sword fell from his hands, and, stirred to the depths of his heart, he fell on his knees and begged for mercy.
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St. Faustina, in her Diary has also written most recently of the Mystery of God’s unfathomable Mercy and tenderness towards all and especially towards sinners in need of Him. Let us take heart from what we have learned from His apparitions to Saints and what we learn from their writings, that we may be stirred to the depths of our hearts, and beg for His Mercy.

Come Holy Spirit enable us to grow in humility that we may be like Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart. Let us learn as Mary and all the saints learned from all Jesus said and did, pondering all in their hearts. Jesus, we trust in You! Mary, Mother and Model of the Church, pray for us. St. Faustina, St. Louis de Montfort, St. Jospeh and all you holy Angels and Saints pray for us.
 
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Thanks for your “heart”, patricius. I know you have read St. Faustina’s Diary, as I have, and if I remember correctly she asked Jesus, one time why he appeared to her at the time of Communion as a Child, and He answered that it was to show her His Humility.

How beautiful is God’s Humility to become so little for our sakes!
 
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Yes, amen.

Jesus told St. Faustina in number 1146 of her Diary that if even the greatest sinner appeals to His Compassion, he cannot punish him, but rather justifies him according to His inscrutable Mercy.

And in another passage, number 1541, He says:

Write this for the benefit of distressed souls: when a soul sees and realizes the gravity of its sins, when the whole abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes, let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of My mercy, as a child into the arms of its beloved mother. These souls have a right of priority to My compassionate Heart, they have first access to My mercy. Tell them that no soul that has called upon My mercy has been disappointed or brought to shame. I delight particularly in a soul which has placed its trust in My goodness.
http://www.seraphim.my/divinemercy/diary/text/DiaryV.htm
 
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Dear Patricius,

Thanks for your reply and the quote from St. Faustina’s Diary and the link to that great source. This age is certainly an age that needs Mercy. On this Feast of the Holy Trinity today, let us thank God for ALL His Tender Mercies in our lives.
 
Thank you, MariaChristi. The tenderness of Christ is so clearly shown in giving us His own Blessed Mother from the Cross of our salvation, so that we who are so prone to distrust God, can now trust in His Goodness with Mary’s Heart.

I love what Blessed Pope Pius IX says in His apostolic constitution, Ineffabilis Deus, where he defines the Immaculate Conception:

Let all the children of the Catholic Church, who are so very dear to us, hear these words of ours. With a still more ardent zeal for piety, religion and love, let them continue to venerate, invoke and pray to the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, conceived without original sin. Let them fly with utter confidence to this most sweet Mother of mercy and grace in all dangers, difficulties, needs, doubts and fears. Under her guidance, under her patronage, under her kindness and protection, nothing is to be feared; nothing is hopeless. Because, while bearing toward us a truly motherly affection and having in her care the work of our salvation, she is solicitous about the whole human race. And since she has been appointed by God to be the Queen of heaven and earth, and is exalted above all the choirs of angels and saints, and even stands at the right hand of her only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, she presents our petitions in a most efficacious manner. What she asks, she obtains. Her pleas can never be unheard.

 
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Dear patricius,

Thanks again for your reply and the beautiful quote from Blessed Pope Pius IX. Yes, I agree with your words as , as you wrote: “The tenderness of Christ is so clearly shown in giving us His own Blessed Mother from the Cross of our salvation, so that we who are so prone to distrust God, can now trust in His Goodness with Mary’s Heart.”

And how truly Blessed Pope Pius IX explains:
…since she has been appointed by God to be the Queen of heaven and earth, and is exalted above all the choirs of angels and saints, and even stands at the right hand of her only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord , she presents our petitions in a most efficacious manner. What she asks, she obtains. Her pleas can never be unheard .
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Her Mercy is His Mercy expressed in a perfect human person. Mary obtains what she asks and her pleas can never be unheard for she only asks and pleads that His Name be hallowed, His Kingdom come and His Will be done on earth as it is in heaven… Mary prays as Jesus taught us to pray. Her heart is one with His.

Jesus, we trust in You! Mary, Mother of Mercy, our Mother given to us by Jesus, pray for us.
 
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Yes, MariaChristi.

As you say “Her Mercy is His Mercy expressed in a perfect human person”.

This makes sense because she is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father through the Son. As St. Max. Kolbe says, Mary’s Immaculate Heart is the concrete sign of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.

Yes, as St. John Eudes says, Mary gives us her whole Immaculate Heart. So when we “love God with all our heart”, this refers to loving God with Mary’s Heart. Furthermore, he explains that Jesus is the heart of Mary’s Heart.

These are such beautiful mysteries! And if we ask only for what our tender Jesus wills, His Will being Love and Mercy itself, He always gives what we ask. This is most consoling.
 
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Dear patricius,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, we live amidst beautiful mysteries, pondering God’s Work in Mary our Motherm and in the hearts and minds of all His holy saints, such as St. John Eudes. St. Maximillian Kolbe, St. Louis de Montfort. Mary Mother and Model for the Church spoke these prophetic words at Fatima:
“In the end, my ImmaculateHeart will Triumph”
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In his Theological Commentary, then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote:
I would like finally to mention another key expression of the “secret” which has become justly famous: “my Immaculate Heart will triumph”. What does this mean? The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind. The fiat of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Saviour into the world—because, thanks to her Yes, God could become man in our world and remains so for all time. The Evil One has power in this world, as we see and experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away from God. But since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good, the freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this: “In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world”. The message of Fatima invites us to trust in this promise.
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It’s so consoling that Mary’s Immaculate Heart will triumph, and that it is our refuge.

This reminds me of a passage from the Admirable Heart of Mary by St. John Eudes

“Only three Hebrew boys were thrown into the furnace of Babylon, but all children of the
admirable Mother of God can enter the furnace of her Heart and dwell there as in a paradise of
delights where they praise and glorify God forever in company with their heavenly Mother, and their hearts are filled with joy and consolation. '“Me dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing,” (12) 0 holy Mother of God.”


St. John Eudes goes on to explain that the mysterious person walking with the three Hebrew children in the furnace of Babylon, the one who “is like the Son of God” is Jesus, because He lives in Mary’s compassionate Heart.
 
Thanks again, patricius, for your love of Jesus through Mary and for your sharing words from St. John Eudes. How beautifully the saints teach us from what God taught them! 🙂
 
Yes, these few books by the saints have consoled me very much. The Papal Encyclicals about Mary’s role as the Mediatrix of her Son’s Mercy also console me.

Jesus Christ, in His Mercy, gave us His Mother so that she could unite us to Him:

Pope Leo XIII explains:

5. The design of this most dear mercy, realised by God in Mary and confirmed by the testament of Christ, was comprehended at the beginning, and accepted with the utmost joy by the Holy Apostles and the earliest believers. It was the counsel and teaching of the venerable Fathers of the Church. All the nations of the Christian age received it with one mind; and even when literature and tradition are silent there is a voice that breaks from every Christian breast and speaks with all eloquence. No other reason is needed that that of a Divine faith which, by a powerful and most pleasant impulse, persuades us towards Mary. Nothing is more natural, nothing more desirable than to seek a refuge in the protection and in the loyalty of her to whom we may confess our designs and our actions, our innocence and our repentance, our torments and our joys, our prayers and our desires - all our of affairs. All men, moreover, are filled with the hope and confidence that petitions which might be received with less favour from the lips of unworthy men, God will accept when they are recommended by the most Holy Mother, and will grant with all favours. The truth and the sweetness of these thoughts bring to the soul an unspeakable comfort; but they inspire all the more compassion for those who, being without Divine faith, honour not Mary and have her not for their mother; for those also who, holding Christian faith, dare to accuse of excess the devotion to Mary, thereby sorely wounding filial piety.
http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xi...nts/hf_l-xiii_enc_22091891_octobri-mense.html
 
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