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For this reason you must become more and more available in my hands; let yourself be led completely by me, who have great plans. From now on you must free yourself from all other obligations… for the sake of my movement. (Message from Our Blessed Mother to Fr. Gobbi)
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Freeing ourselves from all other ‘obligations’, simply means putting aside our own will. We can often get to planning and concocting and can weave such a complex situation around us causing nothing but stress, anxiety and resentment. We are being asked to just trust the plan.
41“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things. 42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”(Luke 10:42)
Let us live the present moment in the greatest of simplicity. Whenever we feel ourselves drifting, let us make an effort to recollect ourselves. Anxiety often comes from too much preoccupation with future events, and depression from too much focus on the past. But it’s this moment, right here and right now where Grace abounds. It’s only here in the now that we can ‘pray and obey’.
Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the Future to His providence. (St. Augustine)
Find Peace in a Busy World with this Easy Prayer to Our Lady of Silence to Help your Journey in Life…and Lent
Oh, beloved Mother, I come to you, tonight, Seeking for rest? To find, in silence, the serenity for which my heart thirsts? After the weariness of the day, And the fever of action,I come to you, Our Lady!
Haven of silence, Fountain of peace, Abyss of gentleness! I come to you, to renew my soul. To forget my cares, To flee from speech, And to escape from the hectic life, Of which, tonight, I am weary.
I come to you, Our Lady, Teacher of silence and of shaded retreats, Of wisdom and of joy, I come to You! I want but one thing: To remain in your sight, To think of You, Virgin of silence.And if I am too broken to think, And too weary to pray, Too wounded even to smile, To simply be there at your feet, In your silence. To savour your silence, your calm,To plunge into it, to quench my thirst in it!
To be at your feet, O Mary! To love you with all my heart, Without words, without discourses, In silence! Oh! Our Lady, I come to you? May my heart contemplate, In your silence, The silence of adoration! Amen