TEACHER OF LIFE
Child
of God and teacher of souls, you are the chosen, selected to drive a flock for
the eternity. Your mission asks for rectitude of life, wisdom of customs,
holiness of good works. Take in mind, Priest, that you are not such for what you
do, but for what you are.
The
works without the faith are nothing for God, because the good works are not
ownership of man, even if man is a tool for accomplish them. If you are holy you
will receive merit to the good that you do; but if you operate the good out of
the state of grace, that good won't be lasting.
God
has created you free to operate both the good and the evil, but if you want to
possess the peace of the heart and being heir of Your kingdom, you have to live
well.
Christ,
Man-God, in all the pictures of His life He is mirror for us of perfect humility.
He
has received from His Father and has revealed to His brothers with simplicity of
heart.
The
Gospel, through its expressions, introduces us His majestic Figure with deep,
but easy words to understand Him.
Christ is not the man of the chatters, of the useless words, of the resentment, of the pride, of the arrogance, of the haughtiness. He has shown to be the friend of the small ones, of the poor men, of the sinners, and on the tracks of His walk He has left the smile of an abandoned life to the Wish of the Father. Priest, bend your head and obey gladly, without argument and without the pretense to want to do what you like it.
God
has called you to be a faithful server for Him. Don't pretend the place of a
master, because only to whom who will choose the last place it shall be given
the first. In the silence of your works you will teach the people that God has
entrusted you. People read in your life and study to imitate you.
For
a Priest silence is a great virtue of prudence.
To
act in noise can mean to want to show that one is someone, while to speak plain
is of the balanced people that show to give what they have received from God.
Courage
brother! Work and pray without trouble; the whole rest will make the Lord.
Mother Providence
Midi:
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