Collect taken from the optional memorial of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin
Collect: Pour out on us, we pray, O Lord, the spirit with which you so remarkably endowed Saint Margaret Mary, so that we may come to know that love of Christ which surpasses all understanding and be utterly filled with your fullness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son…
“Pour out on us, we pray, O Lord, the spirit with which you so remarkably endowed Saint Margaret Mary”
— We recognize that the remarkable holiness of St. Margaret Mary is not due to her own power, but comes from the gift of the Holy Spirit. Thus, the Church asks that this Spirit be poured out in abundance on all.
“so that we may come to know that love of Christ which surpasses all understanding and be utterly filled with your fullness”
— The Spirit which we have requested is the spirit of Love. Because the love of Christ is a divine love, an infinite love, it is beyond our limited understanding. The “fullness” of God which we request here is Love because God is Love. If even God is “full” in Love, then we are over-abundantly full when we are filled with God’s love in the Holy Spirit.
Questions & Advice: What fills your heart? Your imagination? Your time? Wherever your heart is, there will your treasure be.
Read about Christ’s incarnation and his Sacred Heart in the Catechism (475-78). Margaret Mary spread the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. If you do not have an image of the Sacred Heart in your home, get one and gaze at it often as a reminder of His love for you, despite your sins. Learn about the 12 promises of the Sacred Heart. Do your best to stop by a church or chapel (or go to mass) today and spend of few moments consciously reminding yourself that the Eucharist there in the tabernacle or monstrances is Jesus’ heart burning with love for you. Beg him to teach you to rely on him fully.
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| Sancta Margaria Maria, ora pro nobis! |