Let me try this Advent, as one of the best ways of preparing for the Coming of Christ at Christmas, and for His Coming in judgment, to realize what the supernatural life means, what God in me means, what it means to be the host always of God Himself. The realization will transform my life, will alter my point of view, will change me from a mediocre Christian into one who is filled with a great idea and who is occupied with it every moment of his time—an idea which is ever stimulating him to aim higher. God in me—then I am never alone, my life is intimately bound up with God's life. I am a partaker of His nature. O my God, forgive me for having thought of it so little; help me to rise to my great privileges. I thank Thee for letting a few streaks of Thy Divine Light reach my dark soul, and by the time that the Sun of Justice has risen in all His splendour this Advent, may my soul be flooded with the new light which the realization of the Divine Presence within it, will surely bring.
Colloquy with God within me.
Resolution. To realize this truth to-day, and every day more and more.
Spiritual Bouquet. "We will come to Him and make our abode with Him."
OUR LADY'S REST.
| "In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et in hereditate Domini morabor." | In all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord. |
(Ecclus. xxiv. 11).
1st. Prelude. A statue of Our Lady.
2nd. Prelude. Grace to "abide in the inheritance of the Lord."