What is the greatest blessing?

The greatest blessing is when God gives us the grace to be evil spoken of, unjustly suspected, reproached and humiliated for His name’s sake. The Lord Jesus trod this path before us, because He loved us. He was completely innocent. Yet He forgave and prayed for everyone.

The most important thing is to persevere with Jesus abandoned, not to nourish the slightest bitterness towards anyone, to constantly encourage one another and remember: Of what spirit we should be?! Yes, of the Spirit of Christ, who is meek and lowly. We need to humble ourselves before God again and again by entering into the truth about ourselves: How much self-will, how many critical thoughts and words, how much unbelief when we acted without God, according to our own reason, feelings or wishes. How much have we suffered not in order to promote the things of God but our own interests instead! Life goes by. No day will return. What we have sown in faith is sown.

To stay with Jesus, and not abandon Him, means to constantly put off the old self, that is, the old, natural, human ways, and to follow Jesus’ ways. Jesus became a defenceless Lamb led to the slaughter. He says to us too: “Deny yourself, and take up your cross, and follow Me.” (Mt 16:24) Time is really short. May the Mother of God teach us and protect us.

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