69 e-g (The Blue Book)
My beloved sons, let yourselves be truly detached from everything! See: it is not your defects, your falls or your great limitations that prevent you from being totally mine and available for my great plan. Oh, no! On the contrary, these are great gift to you because they help you to realize how little you are and to remain little. They give you, so to speak, measure of your littleness.
It is your attachments which make up the only obstacle which prevents you from being totally mine. How many ties you still have, my sons! Ties to your own self, to other persons however good and holy day be, to your activities, to your ideas, to your feelings. And I will break them, one by one, so that you will be mine alone.
With each day that passes, I will liberate you from your attachments, and I’ll make you more and more free, little, trusting and surrendered, until you are totally mine and my Immaculate Heart is in fact your only good. Then I’ll be able to act in you and carry out my work as Mother, which is that of making each one of you into a living copy of my Son Jesus. Entrust yourselves to me without fear. Every pain that you feel because of a new detachment will be soothed by me with a new gift of love. Each time that you detach yourself from a creature, you will feel your Mother closer to you.
Day 1 of Mary’s Mantle Consecration: Thanksgiving
“ One of God’s first acts of love for you was to create this world so that you could be born into it.”
“Since all of the good within and around us comes from the magnanimous and benevolent hand of our Creator take a moment to write down some of the many gifts and graces He has bestowed on you.” (Mary’s Mantle Consecration Prayer Journal)
The following is from today’s readings… so much to be thankful for right there…
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
Thus says God, the LORD,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spreads out the earth with its crops,
Who gives breath to its people
and spirit to those who walk on it:
I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice,
I have grasped you by the hand;
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant of the people,
a light for the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
My Reflection:
What an interesting place to be put into here at the start of Holy Week and the Consecration prep… to acknowledge and be grateful for so much goodness, but yet to be told in the Blue book message to not get too attached. The things we cling to, end up binding us…even the good things. They risk becoming idols. We are meant for more. For Him alone!
It reminds me of St. John of the Cross and the Nada Path. Nothing but God!!
To reach satisfaction in all
Desire satisfaction in nothing.
To come to possess all
Desire the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all
Desire to be nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all
Desire the knowledge of nothing.
To come to enjoy what you have not
You must go by a way in which you enjoy not.
To come to the knowledge you have not
You must go by a way in which you know not.
To come to the possession you have not
You must go by a way in which you possess not.
To come to be what you are notYou must go by a way in which you are not. (AMC, I, 13, 11: 150)