Thank you so much for your response, Mario, and for keeping me in your prayers I am not asking our Lord for anything on my terms. I know that 'in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, according to His purpose'. I trust Him. But oh, how I yearn for an encounter with Him. The following is one of my favourite hymns that really tugs at my heart strings
Thank you AED. I must add this prayer. I normally pray the 'Anima Christi' and 'Suscipe' prayers of St Ignatius of Loyola after receiving Holy Communion. Thank you very much, AED. God Bless you too.
Yesterday began my 2nd week of the preparation for consecration to Jesus through Mary. The following is part of St. Louis De Montfort's Prayer to Mary, which is one of the prayers said in the 2nd week: "Finally, dearly beloved Mother, grant, if it be possible, that I may have no other spirit but thine to know Jesus and His divine will; that I may have no other soul but thine to praise and glorify the Lord; that I may have no other heart but thine to love God with a love as pure and ardent as thine I do not ask thee for visions, revelations, sensible devotion or spiritual pleasures. It is thy privilege to see God clearly; it is thy privilege to enjoy heavenly bliss; it is thy privilege to triumph gloriously in Heaven at the right hand of thy Son and to hold absolute sway over angels, men and demons; it is thy privilege to dispose of all the gifts of God, just as thou wildest. Such is, O heavenly Mary, the "best part," which the Lord has given thee and which shall never be taken away from thee-and this thought fills my heart with joy. As for my part here below, I wish for no other than that which was thine: to believe sincerely without spiritual pleasures; to suffer joyfully without human consolation; to die continually to myself without respite; and to work zealously and unselfishly for thee until death as the humblest of thy servants." The words in bold made me cry because I so long to have that one to one encounter with Jesus.
I I could cry with you. That is a pure sacrifice. I don't think I could pray that from the heart--just yet. A saint is speaking in these words but Our Lady knows we are children and we need a hug once in awhile.
Thank you for saying that, AED. I was heartbroken because I thought that if I couldn't sincerely pray that prayer, my consecration would become invalid.
Never! Our Lady is receiving every word and enclosing them in her Heart. She knows you better than you know yourself and loves you more th han even your earthly mother. She understands your yearning and she gives it to Jesus as a precious gift. So few desire Him at all. For you to yearn for Him ad you do without any consolation is like the sweet ointment Mary Magdalen poured over His feet. He told St Faustina or maybe it was Gabrielle Bossis that when we experience consolation He is letting us rest on His Heart. But when we experience e dryness and desolation and still long for Him He is being consoled and resting on our hearts. That really touched me. Please keep going with your consecration. Words from scripture come to my mind in this. "You are not far from the Kin gdom of God."
Wonderfully said, AED. Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
AED and Mario, thank you so very much! You have lifted my spirit and touched my heart. I am definitely carrying on with this consecration. This is really touching indeed. Mario, I must beg Mother Mary to help make my spirit contrite and humble, so that God may revive my spirit and heart. Amen.
Did You Know That Jesus And Mary Shared An Organ? It’s not the part of labor and delivery that stands out, and you can bet it doesn’t make into a lot of people’s birth pictures or new baby announcements, but in and around the Christmas season especially, it’s worth remembering the placenta — what it meant to Jesus and Mary, and what it means to us. Quick refresher, if you’re foggy on what a placenta is and does: It’s the organ that connects an unborn baby with his mother. The baby’s umbilical cord attaches to the placenta, and the mother’s body sends oxygen and nutrients through it to the baby. It also filters waste out of the baby’s blood, regulates the temperature of his environment, and produces the hormones that make the pregnancy possible. Here’s the best part, though. The placenta is an organ that the mother and baby build together. We can’t say the mother’s placenta belongs to her in the same way that her womb is hers; the placenta belongs to mother and child both. Part of it is built by her body, and part by the baby’s body, but it’s one single organ — with both of their DNA. So Mary didn’t only carry Jesus in her womb during those months leading up to Christmas day. She and he were actually attached — by a human organ that belonged to them both. It really brings home what Jesus did, coming to earth, and asking to be named Emmanuel, God with us. Later, when Jesus was preaching, somebody calls out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!” Luke tells us that Jesus answered: “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” Here is a God who wants to be so close to us that he became man — not just showing up out of the blue as an adult, but growing inside of his mother’s womb, sharing an organ with her, letting their two bodies be so intimately united — and now he says to us that those who hear the word of God and observe it can be united with him like his own, immaculate mother was. We’re not immaculate, but that’s not the point. Jesus wants to share his life with us. We talk like he just wants proximity. He wants more. We talk about bringing Jesus into our life, making room for him in the inn, remembering him through the season, and all of that is good. But Jesus wants to be closer. Jesus started his human life as every life starts, burrowed into the lining of his mother’s uterus. As he grew, their bodies worked together, God’s body and her immaculate one, building the placenta that attached them until he was ready to be born. Some of us are mothers, and we remember sharing our body with our children. But all of us have mothers, and even though we don’t remember it, we began our lives connected to them in the most intimate way imaginable. If you’ve ever doubted that Jesus truly wants to be with you, remember that the unity in which your own life began is only a shadow of the unity that Jesus is hoping to have with you. https://aleteia.org/2018/12/01/did-you-know-that-mary-and-jesus-shared-an-organ/
