Sunday, May 3 : Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus

During his public life Our Lord gradually reveals and explains his mediation: “I am the way, the truth and the life” he said (Jn 14:6). (…) Son of God, both eternally generated as the Word of the Father and pronounced in time as the incarnate Word, Jesus carries within Him the uncreated light which is God and all the light that God wanted to manifest to the world, the life which is within the Trinity and the life which God wants to spread in souls. In Him are all the treasures of wisdom and grace and it is from His fullness that we receive them. (…) Our grace is filial; this is an essential note. We have received a filial spirit “which makes us cry to God: Father” (Rm 8:15). Within the Holy Trinity we are sons or we are not. Now the Father has only one Son, he is his Word. The eternal rhythm of life within the Holy Trinity is immutable: God the Father, through his knowledge of Himself, generates the Word which expresses it; the Father and the Son, by a common spiration of love, produce the Holy Spirit. Centuries, no more than eternity, will change nothing in this movement. How can we enter and participate in it as our supernatural vocation requires? Not otherwise than through adoption and complete possession such that it creates a certain unity with one of the divine Persons. The Word became incarnate, took a humanity which he carried, happy captive, within this glory that the Word had before the world existed. Through this holy humanity of Christ, the Word seizes and carries away all men who allow themselves to be seized by his grace. The whole diffused and complete Christ is placed, through his unity with the Word, under the eternally fruitful paternity of the Father of light and mercy, and with Him breathes the love of the Holy Spirit who, Spirit of the Father and of the Son, consequently becomes the Spirit of the Church and ours.

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