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I thought it was a rewarding purusit to discuss Anglelic Sweetness. How about Our Lady's Divine Wisdom?
From the Society of Our Lady of the Trinity's SOLT - Fomation guide for Virtues , a PDF on the virtues of Our Lady, they suggest:
Proverbs 8:10-11 9 (Douay or NAB)
Mary’s Wisdom was from God.
Action: Serve the person in your life who challenges you the most
I also pulled up something from Mary Vitamin to get us started.
Feel free to add your thoughts, questions or quotes from your spiritual reading.
Quote:
St. Bernard
“Mary is rightly represented as clothed with the sun for she penetrated into the profound abyss of divine wisdom more deeply that we can think or believe, to such an extent indeed, that she seems to have become immersed in that inaccessible light, so far as it is possible for a creature who does not have a personal union with God.”
St. John Eudes, The Admirable Heart of Mary, (Loreto Publications), 128.
Meditation:
St. John Eudes
“Our Lady possesses a special knowledge of those who are most devoted to her; she knows God’s designs concerning them, the road they should follow to reach God, the state and dispositions of their souls, all the accidents that befall them, all their possible perils, the pains they suffer, interiorly and exteriorly. She knows the temptations that assail them, the evil schemes of their enemies and all their corporal and spiritual needs, so that she may assist, protect, defend and strengthen her faithful followers, obtain from her divine son the help they need most, and she herself the best of mothers to them.”
St. John Eudes, The Admirable Heart of Mary, (Loreto Publications), 128.
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Guess who has a book called
The Love of Eternal Wisdom?
St. Louis de Montfort!!
The book is available online at EWTN
In the first chapter, St. Louis quotes from St. John Chrysostom
"Jesus Christ, Eternal Wisdom, is all that you can and should wish for. Long for Him, seek Him; He is the most precious pearl you should wish to acquire, even at the cost of selling all that you possess."
Doesn't Our Lady exemplify these words?
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Just so you all know
I didn't plan on finding St. Louis' book on The Love of Eternal Wisdom.
I hadn't thought about this topic before posting. I did have a hope that Our Lady would put something in my path. Isn't it great when you receive a simple sign? 
Here's a little more from the very end of the second chapter:
St. Louis de Montfort wrote:
Divine Wisdom lists three degrees in holy living, the last of which constitutes perfection:
(1) Listen to God with humble submission;
(2) Act in him and through him with persevering fidelity;
(3) Seek to acquire the light and unction you need to inspire others with that love for Wisdom which will lead them to eternal life. |
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Of the ten virtues of Our Lady listed by St. Louis de Montfort, the one I thought about the least was Divine Wisdom. Before beginning this thread, I think I relegated Divine Wisdom to those times in my life when there was a crisis -- oh, now I need to imitate Our Lady's Divine Wisdom to make this big decision.
St. Louis' book The Love of Eternal Wisdom is a prayerful meditation on Jesus, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the source of Eternal Wisdom. I especially liked the chapter in which St. Louis reflects on the existence of the Lord from the beginning of time and through Whom all things were made. This is the meditation that has stuck with me.
I gather that Our Lady's practice of Divine Wisdom is the practice of living out of the fact that ...All Things Were Made Through Christ.
Living every moment, every breath, every action, with Christ woven through. Divine Wisdom is not checking in with the Lord here and there...but living with Him, breathing with Him, existing with Him as THE source of Life.
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The editor of my edition of The Love of Eternal Wisdom, A. Somers, says this about chapter 14, The Triumph of Eternal Wisdom in and through the cross:
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This is the most beautiful and most impressive chapter of this book. Someone has called it Montfort's triumph as well as the triumph of the Cross. |
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Here's a link to Chapter 14
Encouraging words to start the Lenten season.
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A visual image of Our Lady's virtue of Divine Wisdom comes from the Litany of Loreto: Seat of Wisdom.
Eternal Divine Wisdom, as an infant, sat on her lap.
(Forgive my serial posting.)
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It's a beautiful series - thank you!!!
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