Sunday, March 1 : Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

For here all human beings must close their eyes so as not to be blinded by the vivid brightness of his light.
All should be silent for fear of tarnishing his perfect beauty by attempting to portray him. Every mind should realise its inadequacy and adore, lest in striving to fathom him, it be crushed by the tremendous weight of his glory. Adapting himself to our weakness, the Holy Spirit offers this description of eternal Wisdom in the
Book of Wisdom which he composed just for us. “Eternal Wisdom is a breath of the power of God, a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty.
Hence nothing defiled gains entrance into him. He is the reflection of eternal light, the spotless mirror of God’s majesty, the image of his goodness” (Wisd. 7:25,26). He is the substantial and eternal idea of divine beauty which God the Father was well pleased with the sovereign beauty of eternal Wisdom, his Son, throughout
time and eternity, as he himself explicitly testified on the day of his Son’s baptism and his transfiguration, “This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased” (Mt. 17:5; cf. Mt. 3:17. Cf. Nos. 55, 98). Finally, in order to draw closer to men and give them a more convincing proof of his love, eternal Wisdom went so far as to become man, even to become a little child, to embrace poverty and to die upon a cross for them.
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