Practical devotion of the day: the gift of Wisdom

1. Human prudence. St. Gregory describes it with a brush: human prudence teaches us to think about the present; there will be time for the future. Knowing how to live, knowing how to enjoy, knowing how to deceive, knowing how to keep one's place, knowing how to take revenge for the injuries received: here is human prudence. It teaches you to adapt to fashion so as not to disappear; to do like the others to escape sarcasm; to earn money; to seek pleasure as long as there is time: such is the wisdom of the world! Meditate if it is the one you like too.

2. Divine wisdom. The Holy Spirit baptized worldly prudence with foolishness; and uncreated Wisdom said; What good is it to gain the whole world and then lose the soul? With the gift of Wisdom, the soul thinks of the most necessary, which is to be saved. Enjoy heavenly things, and, finding the yoke of the Lord sweet, submit to it; practice virtues, mortifications; he directs everything to God for his love and for his own salvation. Here is the Heavenly Wisdom; do you know her?

3. What is our wisdom. The number of fools is infinite, says the Holy Spirit (Eccle. I, 15). What are you looking for in life? What is your ideal? Perhaps you mock the devotees, the simple, the humble, the penitents ...; but will you always laugh? Maybe it seems too early to give yourself to God, to live for him, to love him: but will you have time to do it tomorrow? Ask for the gift of Wisdom that you fall in love with virtue, with Heaven, with God.

PRACTICE. - With mortifications, he implores heavenly Wisdom; recites seven Gloria alto Spirito S.