[MaryVitamin] Perpetual Help & Bl Charles
Mary Vitamin for July 2nd
Topic: The Marian Devotion of Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Quote:
Bl. Charles de Foucauld
"In a time of great suffering, around Christmas 1893, not knowing where to seek refuge, fearing deceit by the devil, I put myself completely in her hands."
Meditation:
Blessed Charles had been living as a saintly Cistercian monk for many years. But during these years he also felt an interior call to found an order; an order dedicated to imitating the poverty and abnegation of the Christ of Bethlehem. He revealed the secrets of his heart to his superior in a letter. It took the superior almost a year to respond. It is during this painful time of silent obedience in which Blessed Charles writes of his entrustment to Our Lady.
Bl. Charles continues:
"I remembered the mother's heart of Our lady of Perpetual Help, and I put myself in her hands like a child, asking her to hold me up and to make of me, not what I would like, but what she herself would like, for the greater glory of her Son, according to his will."
Resolution:
Today I will imitate Blessed Charles de Foucauld and I will pray to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and say,
"Make of me what you would like -- not what I would like."
"Make of me what you would like -- not what I would like."
Marian Vow:
"In virtue of the Marian Vow, finally, the Franciscan Tertiaries of the Immaculate have consecrated their freedom to the Immaculate, and St. Maximilian teaches all such to pray that She 'kindly not respect our free will and, whenever we might want to be free from Her immaculate hands, to restrain us, even if this might much, very much displease us ...' (SK 373)."
Marian Seraphic Pathways, Constitutions 46d
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
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"May the Lord grant all your prayers!" (Psalm 20)
Deacon John
http://www.google.com/profiles/deaconjohn1987
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