Ave Maria Meditations
| Brought to Perfection with Mary“Our Lady gave God a human heart. She made it possible for Him, for Christ to love me. She gave her life to be his life. She gave Him her body, what He asked for. She gave Christ His capacity for pain. Giving Him life she gave Him death. She was made for Christ and then literally her life became His life.”
“She gave birth not only to the Christ in history, but to the Christ in all of us, she gave her good and simple life to be the substance of His life in us. Her love for Him always radiated, always went out to the whole world, always touched all sinners. When she held Him to her heart, she took all broken sinful men to her heart. Giving Him her life, she gave us our life.” “That is the great reality about her; she can truly say to him, “I am, that You shall have life, in every generation, and have it more abundantly. I am that you shall have life and have it in every Christian heart.” “The sacramental life which is indeed the only true mysticism, the only pure contemplation, is the life that our Lady lived. It consisted in her daily self-giving of her life to make Christ’s life, to give Him birth, to give birth to Him in all human beings. It was, and is, the life of sacramental love, the love which says and means: “I want to give You the marrow of my bones, every cell of my body, the pulsing of my blood. It is not enough to be with You. I want to be Your food, Your flesh and blood, Yourself. I give You my body and I give it in every split second of every moment that I live, awake or sleep, in all that I do, in my words, in my work, in eating, laughing, weeping, in sorrow and in joy, that You may have my life and have it abundantly.” “That is what our Lady’s life said to our Lord Christ, that is what its tremendous littleness means. That is reality.” by – Caryll Houselander |
