Sunday, May 21 : Blessed Columba Marmion

In this seeking after God, the principle of our holiness, we cannot find a better model than Christ Jesus himself., But, you will at once say, how is this? Can Christ be our model? How could he “seek God” since he was God himself? It is true that Jesus is God, true God come forth from God, Light arising from the uncreated Light, Son of the living God, equal to the Father (cf. Creed of the Mass). But he is likewise man; he is authentically one of us through his human nature. (…) And we see Christ Jesus, like a giant, rejoice to run the way in the pursuit of the glory of his Father. This is his primal disposition. Let us hear how, in the Gospel, he clearly tells us so: “I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me” (Jn 5:30). To the Jews, he proves that he comes from God, that his doctrine is divine, because he seeks the glory of him that sent him (cf. Jn 7:18). He seeks it to such a degree that he has no solicitude for his own (cf. Jn 8:50). He has ever these words upon his lips: “My Father;” his whole life is but the magnificent echo of this cry: “Abba, Father!” All for him is summed up in seeking the will and the glory of his Father. And what constancy in this search! He himself declares to us that he never deviated from it: “I do always the things that please [my Father]” (cf. Jn 8:29). At the supreme hour of his last farewell, at the moment when about to deliver himself up to death, he tells us that all the mission he had received from his Father was accomplished (cf. Jn 17:4). (…) If, as God, Jesus is the term of our seeking, as Man he is the unique Exemplar, wherefrom we ought never to turn our gaze.
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