Day 15:
Opening Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created and You shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, Grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations.
Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
St. Maximilian’s Attentiveness
From an early age, St. Maximilian chose as a foundation for his life and spirituality the prayerful listening to the word of the Lord (cf. KW 964; 965; 987), so as to discern the path of his life in the manifestations of God’s will. Fr. Maximilian had no doubts that what really matters is not to perform miracles, but to do the will of God through holy obedience (cf. KW 380). We have “to be led” by the Immaculata, he often repeated to himself and to the others (cf. KW 1334; 987), because her will coincides with the will of God (cf. KW 56). But to let ourselves be led is possible only if we have confidence, if we trust that we are in good hands. The will of God that Mary made her own is a good will; it is a will of love. Fr. Maximilian was sure of this. He was really like a weaned child in the arms of his mother, and that is why we find him ready to descend to the starvation bunker in the place of another prisoner.
Living with Mary we also are challenged to make the word of God our daily food. “Do whatever He tells you” (Jn 2:5), says Mary. The psalmist also proclaimed: “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Ps 119:105). “Show me the way to follow…” (Ps 119:32-33,35); Otherwise we will wander like sheep without a shepherd (cf. Ps 119:67,176).
In our consecration to Mary the first place is occupied by the word received, meditated upon and kept in the heart, so it can inform our daily and concrete choices. We are to learn from Mary to compare the divine word and our daily life and to recognize the Father’s plan, the closeness of Jesus, the Spirit living in us and to walk in His ways.
Even for us, as for St. Maximilian, obedience to the Father’s will is what really counts.
His will is manifested in His word, in the Church’s magisterial teaching and in the events of life that become meaningful in the light of God’s word.
Closing Prayer
Hail Mary…
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you, and for all those who do not have recourse to you, especially the enemies of Holy Church and all those recommended to you.
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