Monday 13th May 2013
Our Lady of Fatima
MAGNIFICAT com.
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| Sr. Lucia |
MEDITATION OF THE DAY
by SISTER LUClA
"We believe"
To say "pilgrims of Fatima" is
the same as saying pilgrims of peace; I am told that there is a language in
which the word "Fatirna" means "peace". At all events, we
are all pilgrims of peace. We all desire and long for peaceful days, to be able
to live in peace. But this peace will not be achieved until we use the Law of
God as the norm and guide of our steps ....
The first call which God addresses to us
through his Messenger is ... a call to faith:
My God, I believe.
Faith is the basis of the entire
spiritual life. It is by faith that we believe in the existence of God, in his
power, his wisdom, his mercy, his work of redemption, his pardon and his
fatherly love.
It is by faith that we believe in God's
Church, founded by Jesus Christ, and in the doctrine the Church transmits to
us and by which we shall be saved.
It is the light of faith that guides our
steps, leading us by the narrow way that leads to heaven.
It is by faith that we see Christ in
others, loving, serving, and helping them when they are in need of our assistance.
And it is also our faith that assures us
that God is present within us, that his eyes are always upon us. They are eyes
of Light, almighty and immense, which extends everywhere, sees everything, and
penetrates all things with the unique clarity proper to the Divine Sun alone, as
compared with which the sun which we see and which warms us is no more than a
pale reflection, a fragile spark emanating from the Light of the immense being
which is God.
Sister Lucia (+ 2005) was a Carmelite nun and the oldest of the three children
to whom Our Lady of Fatima appeared in 1917 .
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