May 25
The lemon-verbena
This the plant has neither flower in its splendid branch nor vanity but it has very fine
fragrance and very sharp and delicate odor; and moreover, it has a special
powerful effect on the physical health. Although in itself this flower had no
beauty, its essential is supplemented by the gillyflower and rose.
Poverty
Poverty
is an indispensable virtue for charity to become operative in us; the love of
God empties and cleans the soul of whatever is in it that does not belong to
God, and this vice, this interior detachment from all created things, is such a
necessary virtue that without charity it cannot operate. If this interior detachment
is added to the exterior, and the renunciation of all goods and riches of the
world, poverty acquires a greater perfection.
Floral offering to Mary
Mary,
I offer to you today poverty; I commit myself to a detachment that the love of
God demands. There goes, Oh Mary, my lemon-verbana together with the rose: accept
it and strengthen my resolutions.
Recite five Hail Marys
Invitation: The heart is full of
what it loves. Do you love God with your whole heart? Does God have a place in
your heart? Take some moments of your time with the Lord every day and He will
fill you.
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