You are not to let yourself become worried about any preoccupations… I myself am calling together and uniting the priests from all sides, and they, these beloved sons of mine who have been nourished and formed by me, are all heeding my call.
Blue Book #59 b
We console Christ when we console each other. We can’t love without compassionating, without entering the passion or suffering of another. It is so difficult for us, in the turmoil of our pressurized life of technology, to remember that we are Christ.”Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren you do to me.” When you are passionately in love with God, your whole desire is to share his pain, to be with him.
Grace in Every Season (March 20)
A couple of dear friends started a woman’s prayer group at my parish and have been inviting me for a while. I’ve had every intention of making it for quite a while now, but every single time something has come up. The craziness of my life the last few months just enveloped me, and in the busyness of it all … of stepping out in obedience… of embracing my crosses, I somehow had forgotten this aspect of the faith… of being there for others to commiserate with them and the required humility of allowing others in to my struggles, to be Christ for me.
Our Blessed Mother, finally used her most chaste spouse to get me there. Today, on this St. Joseph feast day I finally went and sat with old friends, we laughed and cried together, and it felt good…a weight was lifted.
In the Blue Book passage above, Our Blessed Mother is saying that we aren’t to let ourselves be over burdened with preoccupations, that she would bring her children together to support each other (she says priests here… but these messages are for all of us). She’s still at it.