Humility Behold the humily of Jesus, Love Crucified
Our Lord has made it clear that the Family of Love Crucified must be founded on HUMILITY. We must BEG our Beloved to saturate our weak and miserable hearts with His humility and the humility of our Blessed Mother. We must be willing to be NOTHING, forgetting our own plans, desires and dreams, and solely desiring to do His will. Our only desire needs to be the Cross, our joy should be found only in the Cross, because that was the sole desire of Jesus here on earth. He tells Conchita, "I never desired anything except the Cross, and ever the Cross, wanting to show the world That which is the sole wealth and happiness on earth, the currency which will buy an eternal happiness." (Diary p. 123) -Lourdes Pinto St. Faustina on humility “Jesus gave me to know the depth of His meekness and humility and to understand that He clearly demanded the same of me.” D 758 O humility, lovely flower, I see how few souls possess you. It is because you are so beautiful and at the same time so difficult to attain? O yes, it is both the one and the other. Even God takes great pleasure in her. The floodgates of heaven are open to a humble soul, and a sea of graces flows down upon her. O how beautiful is a humble soul! From her heart, as from a censer, rises a varied and most pleasing fragrance which breaks through the skies and reaches God Himself, filling his Most Sacred Heart with joy. God refuses nothing to such a soul; she is all powerful and influences the destiny of the whole world. God raises such a soul up to His very throne, and the more she humbles herself, the more God stoops down to her, pursuing her with His graces and accompanying her at every moment with His omnipotence. Such a soul is most deeply united with God. O humility, strike deep roots in my whole being. O Virgin most pure, but also most humble, help me to attain deep humility. Now I understand why there are such few saints; it is because such few souls are deeply humble." (Diary 1306) |