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" You are
Christ's, and Christ is God." (1 Cor. 3:23)
" I am the vine, you are the branches........" (John 15:5)
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Spirituality ICM
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 | 1. a. Jesus, by the very nature of His Incarnational
consecration to God the Father, has
always lived in complete union with His Father in the Holy Spirit.
This is being fulfilled:
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| - By His contemplative life, unceasing prayers in
"plenitudine amoris".
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| - Ever enlightened and enriched by His long life
sufferings, particularly, by His death on the Holy Cross.
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| - Ever represented and prolonged in the Blessed Sacrament,
the summit of the united love.
Consecration means the unity of love.
Jesus Christ submits Himself totally to His Father. He lives with Him, in Him and for Him.
He fulfills His Fatherly-entrusted mission and His daily duty through absolute obedience
(Jn. 16:32; 17:4; 14:10-11).
The word of God is just the love of God the Father.
Out of this "Love in Action", Jesus has become, to His Father, the first and
prodigious missionary upon the earth. The love of His Father animates all His being and
activities
(Jn. 17,3,8,18).
b. furthermore, being motivated by His love towards His Mother, the
Child Jesus living in continual intimacy with Mary, as well as through her, love all His
brothers from whom He has immolated Himself (Tim. 2:14; 1 Tim. 2:6; Jn. 17,11,21,22; Jn.
14:20).
There is nothing in the world like that physical, psychological, spiritual, and mystical
intimacy as witnessed in the love between the Son and the Mother. It is truly perfect and
holy; most astonishing and beyond human understanding.
God alone could have created this incredible unity of love between Jesus and Mary for us.
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| 2. a. Mary, by means of her active participation in
the life of Christ's union with God through the mystery of IC, is rightly called
"Mater Pulchrac Dilectionis" and is motivated to live in complete union with God
the Father and the Holy Spirit through Jesus, with Jesus, in Jesus, and for Jesus.
Mary lives a loving life of interior contemplation and continual prayers, Mary
"treasured all these things and reflected on them in her heart: (New American Bible,
Lk. 2:19)--"Together the apostles devoted themselves to constant prayers.....in their
company, Mary the Mother of Jesus......(Acts 1:14)
Mary lives a loving life of an absolute dependency on God, a total humility, submission
and obedience to His will; a life of the great eight Beatitudes(Mt. 5:2-12; Lk. 6:20-23).
Mary lives a common and almost unknown and "hidden" life -- "alma
mater" --, through the accomplishment of her daily duty filled with several and
unexpected trials, humiliations, vicissitudes, and sufferings physical and moral out of
"love in action" -- "You yourself shall be pierced with the sword"
(Lk. 2:35) -- Stabat Mater Dolorosa juxta crucem.
b. Moreover, Mary was at her blessed Conception the first mystical
living tabernacle wherein Jesus Christ "God and Man" ever dwelled, "quia
quem meruisti portare, alleluia".
c. Also, as the Mother of Christ, Mary is the first apostle and the
most enthusiastic, powerful missionary lady of the world to Her Son. She is in reality the
queen of all the apostles of Christ in the Holy Church for the spiritual reconciliation of
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