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PRAYING THE WAY OF THE INCARNATION: THE GREAT NATIVITY - DAY 25 NINTH STATION "Patience is a twofold grace, that of waiting and that of suffering, both are a great aid to zeal. The Eternal Word's zeal for the salvation of men had existed in all its perfection and all its fullness from all eternity, yet think how long He waited! When the conditions were changed and He had at length become incarnate, He still waited patiently for nine months,and after that He waited for thirty years! This was zeal, zeal in its perfection. Is my zeal tempered with patience?" Mother St. Paul's book Ortus Christi (published in 1921) . A MORNING OFFERING O My Jesus, grant me the grace of your patience and zeal. Help me this Christmas to renew my intention to bring you to others. Help me each day to look for ways to give your love to others. You came as a lovable child - may I learn to present your lovable face to others. Visit the blog version of: Unborn Word of the day |
Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.