Now something is really changing: it is I who am living and working in you. Your heart beats in unison with mine; your mind follows my thoughts; your words repeat my voice; your hands repeat my gestures: you are, as it were, born again in me.
Blue Book # 61c
Yes, the reason we don’t follow Christ is because of risk. Millions of people who are supposed to be Christian are not taking the risk of following Christ.
It’s all very well to read and write about it, but it’s the doing that is difficult.
Grace in Every Season (March 22)
If we are dedicated to the Christian life we are constantly being changed, it says in 2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
It’s completely possible to live our entire lives in the church and not experience much of this ‘metanoia’. I must admit that it wasn’t until being introduced to the Marian Movement of Priests in 2020, that I felt this taking place so intensely.
It’s Our Blessed Mother that leads us to follow Jesus at this intensity. We need the human dimension … not merely Divine intervention … although it’s the grace that gives it life… to guide us to action. The grace is there just waiting… but we need to ‘step into it’.
The Blue Book is all about her leading us step by step in how to do this… she hammers in on docility, humility, poverty, detachment, dying to self… all the things that the world hates but are so necessary for softening our hearts enough to even be lead. Only then can the Holy Spirit take over and we can live for Christ!