“God
looked over the world for an empty heart – a heart that was empty like a flute
on which He could pipe a tune ... and the emptiest heart He could find
was the heart of a lady.
Since there was no self there, He filled it with His Very
Self.” - Caryll
Houselander, The Reed of God (1944)
"In Advent Christ rested in Mary still, silent, helpless, utterly dependent. The Creator trusted Himself to His creature. ...This was a foreshadowing of what the Incarnation would mean for us; for in us too, Christ rests as He rested in Mary.
From the moment when the Christ life is
conceived in us, our life is intended for one thing, the expression of
His love, His love for God and for the world. ... We must allow the Christ life
to grow in us in rest. Our whole being must fold upon Christ's rest in us, as
the earth folds upon the seed."
Caryll Houselander, The Passion of the
Infant Christ
(London: Sheed and Ward, 1949)
Christmas Novena begins
TODAY!
I love that image of our Blessed Mother! Thank you for sharing.
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