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Day 34 Lenten Reflection
“You are going to leave your homeland, your family, your relatives, your friends, everything, to save the souls and to suffer martyrdom. Yes, if it is not a martyrdom of blood, it will be a martyrdom of hunger, a martyrdom of thirst, a martyrdom of heat, of pain and anguish, of tears. We shall pray for you here.”
Stabat Mater
Christ above in torment hangs,
She beneath beholds the pangs,
Of her dying glorious Son.
May Mary be Our Guide and Example of Courage in Lent.
(Quote source: A Founder Speaks: Spiritual talks of Jean Claude Colin #143.4, 1975)
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
The team at Sober St. Patrick’s Day have generously shared a short biographical video on St. Patrick featuring text by Robert Ellsberg, author of “Blessed Among Us” in Give Us This Day.
Day 33 Lenten Reflection
Avoiding obstacles
In the Marist spirit there is much of Saint John the Baptist: “He must increase, and I must decrease,” he said (John, 3,30). Because he wanted to witness to the greatness of the Messiah, John witnessed his smallness. Just like John the Baptist and Mary, the Marist also makes himself small. He knows that arrogance and self-sufficiency lead to “self-idolatry.” Colin said: “My little Marists, make yourselves small, little.”
Stabat Mater
O how sad and sore distressed
Was that Mother, highly blest
Of the sole-begotten One.
May Mary be Our Guide and Example of Courage in Lent.
(Quote source: Original quote inspired by A Founder Speaks: Spiritual talks of Jean Claude Colin, #57.1, 1975)
Day 32 Lenten Reflection
Marist life is like a pepper tree. It’s the same stem, the same trunk, the same roots. But the fruits that come out of this tree are of different colours: red and yellow and green. However, it is the same plant that carries them and all this diversity becomes at the same time a wealth. This is the Society of Mary.
Stabat Mater
Through her heart, His sorrow sharing,
All his bitter anguish bearing,
Now at length the sword has passed.
May Mary be Our Guide and Example of Courage in Lent.
(Quote source: Original quote)
(Image: “The sorrowful Virgin Mary holds her Son Jesus after His death”, by Elizabeth Wang)