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MY DAILY BREAD Part Two The Way of Imitation
By: CONFRATERNITY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD COPYRIGHT 1954
VIRTUES LEADING DIRECTLY TO GOD
CHAPTER 37
Interior transformation
CHRIST:
MY CHILD, as you learn to share my daily life through meditation and prayer, you will become more like Me in your own daily life. Your thinking will slowly be transformed into My way of thinking. My outlook on life will replace yours. So too with your manner of talking and acting. your self worth will gradually vanish and a new self will take its place. All this will you do, with the help of My grace, in order to become a loyal friend of Mine, living in constant union with me.
2. One of the most wonderful effects of this transformation will be that you will also share My desires, My intentions, My dignity and power. In a true sense your earthly life will be a continuation of Mine. you will have power to petition My heavenly Father in My name, and He will grant your petitions for My sake.
3. Both for yourself and for others you will be able to obtain many extra favors and graces, which might oherwise not have been granted. Thus your daily life will help release to the world a large share of the help and mercy which I merited by My earthly life and sufferings.
4. This is the biggest reason for Satan's opposition to you. He will never tire of tempting you. If he cannot gain your soul, at least he may prevent you from helping others over whom he has more influence. Your life of friendship with Me will weaken many of his temptations against others for whom you can obtain extra actual graces.
5. Remembert this when you feel no desire to do more for Me through prayer, good works, and self control. I have given you the privilege of helping Me in the work of saving the world. Though you are not necessary in this divine task, I have given you the privilege of being useful in it.
6. In this daily battle for the souls of men, you can be a very effective soldier of Mine. Satan never abandons his attempts to make men fall into mortal sin. So, too you must never allow yourself to grow weary of interceding for souls in danger of sin. Do it by prayer, self control, self-sacrifice, and by your general intention in whatever you are doing at the moment.
THINK:
There is no other Redeemer of men than Jeuss. He alone is necessary. All others are merely useful in helping His work. Jesus did enlist the aid of His apostles and His Church. These were commissioned to go forth and make disciples of the whole world. I have a share in that divine commission, since I am a member of His Church. In a true sense Jesus made me a part of Himself. Through His Church, His sacraments, and His actual graces, He offers me more and more of His thoughts, desires, intentions, outlook, purpose, and power. As Jesus earned light and strength for all men to know God's truth and fight against their tempatitons, so can I help epople gain a larger number of the actual graces which Christ gained for them. As His daily life was the source of all salvations, so can my daily life be a channel of grace for people in need of greater graces. The more I devote myself to the imitation of Christ in my daily life, the more actual graces can I obtain for people throughhout the world. This Christ-likeness is my greatest possible achievement of earth.
PRAY:
My Jesus, let me always see the deeper, eternal importance of my daily life. Let my thoughts, desires, and intentions center around You every moment of the day. I can truly make a lasting impression on the world. I can obtain extra actual graces for people in all conditions of life, graces which may make the difference between their eternal salvation and their eternal loss. Lord, though You do not need me nor anyone else, You have granted me the privilege of helping you in this glorious task of helping people gain Heaven. Do not let me fail you in this all-important work. I shall no longer measure my day's work by my visible activities. I hope to keep before my eyes the grand, worldwide mission which You have laid before me--the mission of gaining actual graces for people in need. Amen.
MY DAILY BREAD Part Two The Way of Imitation
By: CONFRATERNITY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD COPYRIGHT 1954
VIRTUES LEADING DIRECTLY TO GOD
CHAPTER 37
Interior transformation
CHRIST:
MY CHILD, as you learn to share my daily life through meditation and prayer, you will become more like Me in your own daily life. Your thinking will slowly be transformed into My way of thinking. My outlook on life will replace yours. So too with your manner of talking and acting. your self worth will gradually vanish and a new self will take its place. All this will you do, with the help of My grace, in order to become a loyal friend of Mine, living in constant union with me.
2. One of the most wonderful effects of this transformation will be that you will also share My desires, My intentions, My dignity and power. In a true sense your earthly life will be a continuation of Mine. you will have power to petition My heavenly Father in My name, and He will grant your petitions for My sake.
3. Both for yourself and for others you will be able to obtain many extra favors and graces, which might oherwise not have been granted. Thus your daily life will help release to the world a large share of the help and mercy which I merited by My earthly life and sufferings.
4. This is the biggest reason for Satan's opposition to you. He will never tire of tempting you. If he cannot gain your soul, at least he may prevent you from helping others over whom he has more influence. Your life of friendship with Me will weaken many of his temptations against others for whom you can obtain extra actual graces.
5. Remembert this when you feel no desire to do more for Me through prayer, good works, and self control. I have given you the privilege of helping Me in the work of saving the world. Though you are not necessary in this divine task, I have given you the privilege of being useful in it.
6. In this daily battle for the souls of men, you can be a very effective soldier of Mine. Satan never abandons his attempts to make men fall into mortal sin. So, too you must never allow yourself to grow weary of interceding for souls in danger of sin. Do it by prayer, self control, self-sacrifice, and by your general intention in whatever you are doing at the moment.
THINK:
There is no other Redeemer of men than Jeuss. He alone is necessary. All others are merely useful in helping His work. Jesus did enlist the aid of His apostles and His Church. These were commissioned to go forth and make disciples of the whole world. I have a share in that divine commission, since I am a member of His Church. In a true sense Jesus made me a part of Himself. Through His Church, His sacraments, and His actual graces, He offers me more and more of His thoughts, desires, intentions, outlook, purpose, and power. As Jesus earned light and strength for all men to know God's truth and fight against their tempatitons, so can I help epople gain a larger number of the actual graces which Christ gained for them. As His daily life was the source of all salvations, so can my daily life be a channel of grace for people in need of greater graces. The more I devote myself to the imitation of Christ in my daily life, the more actual graces can I obtain for people throughhout the world. This Christ-likeness is my greatest possible achievement of earth.
PRAY:
My Jesus, let me always see the deeper, eternal importance of my daily life. Let my thoughts, desires, and intentions center around You every moment of the day. I can truly make a lasting impression on the world. I can obtain extra actual graces for people in all conditions of life, graces which may make the difference between their eternal salvation and their eternal loss. Lord, though You do not need me nor anyone else, You have granted me the privilege of helping you in this glorious task of helping people gain Heaven. Do not let me fail you in this all-important work. I shall no longer measure my day's work by my visible activities. I hope to keep before my eyes the grand, worldwide mission which You have laid before me--the mission of gaining actual graces for people in need. Amen.
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