Mary kept all these things in her heart. What was the center toward which Mary's heart turned? The words of her Son and the divine revelations; other things did not concern her. Where her treasure was, there was her heart.
And I, what place do I give during the day to the thought of the Humanity of the Savior, His Holy Person, His public or hidden life, His Passion, or His Eucharistic existence? I do not lack suggestions, for I have my spiritual reading, prayer, conversations and good example.
Do I, like Mary, keep all these divine things in my heart? Or am I like a stranger in the midst of the supernatural realities which form the setting of my daily life?
Fenelon suggests: "Compare what does occupy you with God who could occupy you." What a distance, what an abyss....
The misfortune does not so much arise from what I fail to do, as for instance neglecting to exert myself in prayer, but rather from remaining on the surface of the realities that I meditate. Their vital significance escapes me. These truths must penetrate into my very soul; then they will become stimulating, gripping, caustic. The chief aim of my meditation should be to fix the sublime, invisible realities in my poor soul, only too often a prisoner of the visible form in which I live. I must convince myself that the invisible realities constitute the one thing necessary - all else is nothing.
I must delve deep during prayer.
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Adapted from Meditations for Religious
by Father Raoul Plus, S.J. (© 1939, Frederick Pustet Co.)
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