The virtue of patience by imitating Mary

THE PATIENT SOUL, WITH IMMACULATE MARY

1. Mary's pains. Jesus, although God wanted, in His mortal life, to suffer pains and tribulations; and if he made His Mother free from sin, he did not free her at all from suffering and suffering much! Mary suffered in the body for poverty, for the inconvenience of her humble state; she suffered in the heart, and the seven swords that pierced her formed Mary the Mother of Sorrows, the Queen of Martyrs. Among so many pains, how did Maria behave? Resigned, she tolerated them with Jesus.

2. Our pains. Human life is a web of thorns; tribulations follow one another unabated; the condemnation to the bread of pain, pronounced against Adam, weighs upon us; but the same pains can become a penance for our sins, a source of many merits, a crown for Heaven, where they are suffered with resignation ... And how do we endure them? Unfortunately with how many complaints! But with what merit? Don't small straws seem to us beams or mountains?

3. The patient soul, with Mary. The many sins committed deserve far more serious punishments! Should not even the thought of avoiding Purgatory encourage us to darken happily in life? We are brothers of patient Jesus: why not imitate him? Let us imitate Mary's example today in her resignation. We suffer in silence with Jesus and for Jesus; let us endure generously whatever tribulation God sends us; we suffer constantly until we get the crown. Do you promise?

PRACTICE. - Recite nine Ave Maria with the ejaculatory: Blessed be etc .; you suffer without complaining.