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He chose his Mother … When we reflect upon the joy which it is to ourselves to think of Mary, to brood upon her supernatural loveliness, and to study the greatness of her gifts and the surpassing purity of her virtues, we shall get such faint idea, as lies within our compass, of the unspeakable gladness which it must have been to the Word to have chosen Mary, and to have created her through that very choice.

He must choose a Mother who shall be worthy of being the Mother of God, a Mother suitable to that tremendous mystery of the Hypostatic Union, a Mother fitted to minister that marvelous Body out of her own heart’s blood, and to be herself for months the tabernacle of that most heavenly Soul. All God’s works are in proportion. When he appoints to an office, his appointment is marked by extreme fitness. He ele­vates nature to the level of his own purposes. He enables it to compass the most supernatural destinies by fulfilling it with the most incredible graces. There was no accident about his choice of Mary. (more…)

One Minute Meditation

The Lord has shown His great mercy. Enkindle in your hearts ardent desires and burning wishes for Our Lord to come to you in the virtue of His charity, love of the Father, and of every human being. Say with the Royal Prophet, “I opened my mouth and panted.” And your Savior will respond, “Surely I come quickly; you shall see Me very soon.”

Your eyes at the midnight Mass will gaze upon the elevated Host and your lips will utter, “My Lord and my God.” A few minutes more and the little Infant will have come to you. His Immaculate Mother did not hold Him more truly in her arms that first Christmas midnight than you will have Him, Heart to heart. Then all the love of that Infant Redeemer will be poured out upon you. It’s a thirst of the heart of every creature that desires to be loved, and the love which can alone satisfy that craving is the Divine Love.

Let your heart delight in the love your God has for you, personally, individually. No soul ever in ardent fervor desires to unite herself to our Lord in Holy Communion, as our Lord desires to unite Him­self to her. So Holy Communion is a delight to your Infant Savior; because He loves you, oh, how immea­surably! He tells you in His Heart to heart interview that He has become a little Infant so that you may love Him with a human love without fear. He wants you to confide in Him, approach to Him with a con­viction that His Great Majesty is annihilated that you may no longer see in Him but a little Child, with a body and soul just as you have. And the mystery of love is this: that He unites His Body to your body and your soul to His Soul, so that yours may be a member of His very own.

This Christmas Holy Communion will unite you to our Lord, it is my prayer, more intimately than ever before in all your lives so that even the smallest of your actions may by this union be animated with divine Life – and all for the honor of the Father and the salvation of souls. May you participate in His life of charity, and may a divine light illumine you to see the depths and heights of the charity of a God made Man to redeem that which was lost. You participate in the spirit and the immense charity of Christ so as to be born this Christmas to a new life of charity – for “he that abides in charity, abides in God.”

+St. Katherine Drexel

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

Jan 28 – “You would almost like to measure, comprehend, feel and touch the love that you nurture for God; but be certain that the more a soul loves God, the less she feels it.”

Jan 29 – “The more a soul advances in love for this Supreme Good, the more her sentiment of love towards Him, which surpasses her knowledge, lessen/become smaller/diminish, so much as to seem to the poor soul that she does not love Him at all.” (sorry, poor translation)

Jan 30 – “The continual fear of losing God; that holy circumspection that makes you watch where you step so as not to stumble; that courage with which you confront the battles of the enemy; that resignation of all the troubles of this life to the divine Will; that ardent desire to see the Kingdom of God established in you and in the others are the most clear proofs of the love of your souls toward the Supreme Good.”

Jan 31 – “You love the most tender Spouse, but it seems to you such a small thing because you would desire to love with a perfect and consummate love. But to us miserable and unfortunate mortals, this love- at least in its fullness- is not granted to us if not in the next life. Oh, miserable condition of our human nature!”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“May the heavenly Spouse dispel the most subtle cloth that separates us from Him, and may He finally grant us a love that is consummated. Otherwise our life is no longer life; our sickness is incurable and our stay here on earth is a most difficult and prolonged agony.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“In these days […], I have often been seized by those excesses of divine love that make my poor heart languish so much. I completely understood Jesus’ condescension toward me, and I directed my usual prayer to Him with more confidence: “Oh, Jesus! If only I could love You, if only I could suffer what you would like, and make You content and repair, in a certain way, the ingratitude of men toward You!” But Jesus made me hear His voice much more in my heart: “My son, love is known in suffering; you will feel it acute in your spirit, and you will feel it even more acute in your body.”

“How can it be that a soul who considers Jesus, crucified for her, can love something other than Him, and that after so many acts of fidelity which made us say, write, sing and sigh ‘Long live Jesus’, we want, like the perfidious and iniquitous Jews, to shout: May he be crucified, may he be killed in our hearts?”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“I want nothing other than Jesus alone; I desire nothing other than His sufferings. Allow me to say it, because no one can hear us, I am even disposed to remain deprived for ever of the delights that Jesus makes me feel.  I am ready to suffer Jesus hiding His beautiful eyes from me, as long as He does not hide His love from me.  I would die from that.  But I do not feel the desire to be deprived of suffering; I lack the strength for this.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“When Jesus wants to let me know that He loves me, He lets me delight in a taste of His wounds, thorns, anguishes…of His Passion. When He wants me to rejoice He fills my heart with that spirit which is all afire, He speaks to me of His joys. But when He wants to be pleased, He speaks to me of His sufferings; He invites me with a voice both of prayer and command to lend my body to lighten His pains.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“The relief that one gives to Jesus is incomprehensible, not only in compassionating Him in His sufferings, but when He finds a soul who, for love of Him, does not ask for consolations but to participate in His sufferings.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“Jesus tells me that in love it is He who pleases me; in sufferings, instead, it is I who please Him. Now, to desire health would be to go in search for joys for myself and to not try to comfort Jesus. Yes, I love the cross, only the cross; I love it because I see it always on the shoulders of Jesus. By now, Jesus sees that my whole life, my whole heart is completely vowed to Him and to His sufferings.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“That which afflicts me the most is that I repay so much of Jesus’ love with so much ingratitude…He always wants the best for me and He presses me ever more to Himself. He forgot my sins, and one could say He only remembers His mercy.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“Considering the love of Jesus, on the one hand, my ingratitude; on the other, I would like to say to Jesus that if I cannot love Him, He, too, should stop loving me…only in this way does it seem to me to be less culpable. But if Jesus did not love me, what would become of me? I no longer loving Jesus, and Jesus no longer loving me! This is something too frightening for me, and therefore I always pray to Jesus to continue loving me, and He will think of me if I am not able to love Him as He deserves.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“I desire death only to unite myself with indissoluble bonds to the heavenly Spouse. I even desire life, so as to suffer more, Jesus having made me understand that the sure proof of love is only in sufferings.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“I desire nothing else than to either die or to love God: either death or love, as life without love is worse than death; for me, it would be more unbearable than that what it is presently.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“I am devoured by the love of God and the love of my neighbor. For me, God is always fixed in my mind and stamped in my heart. I never lose sight of Him: I need to admire His beauty, His smiles, and His troubles, His mercies, His vengeances, or better, the rigors of His justice.”

Ave Maria!– January’s Theme: Divine Love

“I feel a most strong desire, often times without my thinking to procure it, of spending all of the moments of my life in loving the Lord. I would like to hold on tightly to one of His hands, and run with joy on that sorrowful path on which He has placed me; but, and I say this even with death in my heart, with confusion in my soul and with my face blushing, that my desires do not correspond exactly to my desires.”