Today's devotion: Nativity of the Virgin Mary

8 ° September

THE NATIVITY OF MARY VIRGIN

1. The Heavenly Girl. With your soul filled with faith, approach the cradle where the Child Mary rests, look at its celestial beauty; I do not know what angelic hovers around that face ... The Angels stare at that heart which, without original stain, without stimulation to evil, indeed adorned with the most chosen graces, kidnaps them in admiration. Mary is the masterpiece of God's omnipotence; admire her, pray to her, love her because she is your mother.

2. What will this little girl become? The neighbors looked at Mary without penetrating that it was the Dawn of the Sun. Jesus, now approaching; perhaps the mother Saint Anne understood something of it, and with what love and respect she kept it! ... This Child is the favorite of God the Father, and the dear Mother of Jesus, is the Bride of the Holy Spirit; is Maria SS .; she is the Queen of Angels and of all Saints ... Dear Heavenly Child, be the Queen of my heart, I give it to you forever!

3. How to honor Mary's birth. At the feet of the Child meditate on those words of Jesus: If you do not become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven. Children, that is, small because of innocence and more because of humility; and it was precisely the humility of Mary that pleased God, says St. Bernard. And won't it be your haughtiness, your pomp, your proud ways that demeritate you so many graces from Mary and Jesus? Question and practice humility.

PRACTICE. - It was revealed to St. Matilde to recite thirty Ave Maria today, in deference to the Virgin Child.