Obedience

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "If the superior really loved his brothers, he would try to never let them know the reasoning behind his orders or his prohibitions of one thing or another,…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "When the superiors are presented with information that they previously were unaware of, if this does not seem sufficient to them to change the order, by no means…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "The superior may permit the friars to present their various opinions, or he may not permit them, according to how he judges it as more or less opportune…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "Does the Immaculate guide the superior with certainty in all of the daily events because he is more wise or more virtuous than the other friars? Or because…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "How beautiful and pleasing is this reality of religious life, the fact that God and the Immaculate deign to speak to us so clearly and with such detail…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "How much peace and authentic joy is experienced by the soul of a religious upon knowing with certainty that he is accomplishing the will of God, that he…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "What serenity and sweetness will the heart of the religious be filled with at the end of his life upon knowing that in all things he will have…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "With how much displeasure and remorse will a friar, on his deathbed, remember those superiors whom he perhaps liked the most because they were more 'indulgent', more 'understanding',…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "The greater the sacrifice made of oneself, of one's own inclinations, of one's own intelligence, of one's own preferences because of obedience, that much greater is the love…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "The souls who continually love God cannot live without continually renouncing themselves in order to continually burn and grow on fire ever more with the flame of true…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "How much displeasure is given to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by those religious who, through lack of continuous vigilance over themselves, through negligence in incessant prayer by…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "If the superiors order something that is not according to the conviction and will of the friars, there may be some friars who show dissatisfaction or bring up…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Obedience "Sometimes the superiors, in order to avoid a greater evil (e.g. the non-execution of an order or a hypocritical execution because done with interior aversion), will yield to…