"I have loved you with an everlasting love...And I know the plans I have for you says the Lord"
Jeremiah:29-31
I have asked the Immaculate Queen to comment on these words 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…. Mary is the most imitable of all the saints. If I search the catalogue of 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 time 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. A jewel in the heart of Mary was her total abandonment: her living and limitless faith. The angel brings her the phenomenal announcement: she will be the mother of the Messiah; the Son of God will be her Son. Seeing her moved in her humility and not understanding how she will remain a virgin, the angel reassures her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. He reminds her that nothing is impossible to God. He gives her a sign. God has spoken, and the response pours forth from the depths of the soul of Mary: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word. This is the fiat of Mary, pronounced in the name of all humanity. Without her we would not have Jesus; we would not have our Brother, our Friend, 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, your fiat. He asks you to pronounce these words very often each day, which sometimes cost 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. Father Jean du Coeur de Jésus d’Elbée |
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