"I Believe in Love" Day 23 Part One Jesus, Mary and the Saints

[Dawn Marie]

Excerpts from the book “I believe in love”.

By Father Jean C.J. d’Elbee

 

 

DAY 23

PART ONE

JESUS, MARY AND THE SAINTS

 

I HAVE ASKED THE IMMACULATE QUEEN TO COMMENT ON THESE CONFERENCES IN THE INTIMACY OF YOUR SOUL, TO BRING JESUS CLOSER TO YOU, OR RATHER, TO OPEN YOUR EYES TO HIS ADORABLE PRESENCE, FOR HE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU.  MY WHOLE INTENTION HAS BEEN TO GIVE HIM TO YOU IN A MORE PROFOUND WAY AND TO PLUNGE YOUR HEARTS FOR TIME AND ETERNITY INTO HIS HEART, THE ABYSS OF FIRE AND BLOOD OPENED FOR YOU.

 

BUT THAT IS THE WORK OF MARY.  JESUS HAS BELONGED TO MARY SINCE HER FIAT IN NAZARETH.  IT IS HER PREROGATIVE TO GIVE HIM TO YOU, AND IT IS ALSO THROUGH HER THAT HE WILLS TO RECEIVE YOUR GIFTS AND ESPECIALLY YOUR HEARTS.  MAY SHE HIDE YOU IN HIS HEART AND KEEP YOU THERE FOREVER.

 

I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU IN A FEW WORDS FIVE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL JEWELS IN THE HEART OF MARY: HER SIMPLICITY, HER ABANDONMENT, HER LOVE FOR THE CROSS, HER THIRST FOR SOULS, AND HER LOVE.

 

THE GOSPEL TELLS US NOTHING ABOUT THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY.  IT SEEMS THAT GOD WILLED JEALOUSLY TO HIDE THIS DIAMOND OF GREATEST BEAUTY.  AND MARY, ALL HER LIFE, KEPT HER LOVE OF RETICENCE, OF SELF-EFFACEMENT, OF THE HIDDEN LIFE, UNDER THE VEIL OF SIMPLICITY, LIKE A MARVELOUS TREASURE.

 

THINK OF HER AT NAZARETH, THE WIFE OF A CARPENTER, KEEPING THE HOUSEHOLD, SWEEPING, GOING TO THE FOUNTAIN, SHE, THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN.  SHE APPEARS LATER AS IF LOST IN THE MIDST OF THE HOLY WOMEN, HAVING NOTHING TO DISTINGUISH HER.

 

I DO NOT SEE MARY FAINTING IN THE ARMS OF ST. JOHN OR MARY MAGDALEN, BUT STANDING----STABAT MATER (“HIS MOTHER STOOD”)----IN IMMENSE SORROW AND IN DIVINE PEACE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.  AFTER LAYING JESUS IN THE TOMB, ST. JOHN BROUGHT MARY BACK TO HIS OWN HOME, WHERE SHE WAS TO LIVE, UNTIL THE ASSUMPTION, THE SAME LIFE SHE HAD LED AT NAZARETH.

I PICTURE TO MYSELF MARY DURING THE DISCOURSE OF ST. PETER ON THE MORNING OF PENTECOST; NO ONE IN THE CROWD OF HEARERS HAD ANY IDEA THAT THE MOTHER OF THIS RESURRECTED JESUS, OF WHOM ST. PETER TOLD THEM, THE MOTHER OF GOD, THE SPOUSE OF THE HOLY GHOST, WHO INFLAMED THEIR HEARTS, WAS THERE, SILENT, IN THEIR MIDST.

 

MARY IS THE MOST IMITABLE OF ALL THE SAINTS.  FOR A MODEL OF THE MOST HUMBLE AND POOREST OF WOMEN ON EARTH, I FIND NOT A SINGLE ONE WHO IS MORE TRULY THIS MODEL THAN MARY.

 

IN OUR TIMES JESUS ALSO WANTS HIDDEN SAINTS LIKE THE “WOMAN OF NAZARETH,” WHO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES IN NOTHING EXTERIORLY, BUT WHO BURN INTERIORLY.  NEVER, MOREOVER, HAVE THERE BEEN MORE SAINTS OF THIS KIND, THAN IN OUR DAY.

 

MARY’S SECOND JEWEL IS HER TOTAL ABANDONMENT: HER LIVING AND LIMITLESS FAITH.  WITHOUT HER WE WOULD NOT HAVE JESUS OUR SAVIOR.  THE LOVING ABANDONMENT OF MARY IS AT THE ORIGIN OF OUR REDEMPTION.

AT THE ORIGIN OF THE REDEMPTION OF THOSE SOULS WHOM GOD HAS RESOLVED TO SAVE THROUGH YOU MUST BE ALSO YOUR LOVING ABANDONMENT, YOUR ECCE ANCILLA, (“BEHOLD THE HANDMAID”) YOUR FIAT.  HE ASKS US TO PRONOUNCE THESE WORDS VERY OFTEN EACH DAY, WHICH SOMETIMES COSTS OUR FEEBLE NATURE SO MUCH, WITH UNRESERVED ACCEPTANCE OF THE DIVINE WILL, WHATEVER IT BE, SO OFTEN CRUCIFYING YET ALWAYS TO BE HELD IN ADORATION.

[AURA CID L F FERREIRA DE BRITTO]

† Amen †

[Flavia Talladen Schott]

Amen. 

AVE!

[Alley]

With love +

[bernadette szczepkowski]

Pray for us Little Flower+

[AnnaMaria]

AMEN

[MARIA ESTHER DE VALLE]

Amen

[Michael]

Amen.

[William N Conti]

Amen.

[Alley]

With love!

[Alan]

Amen