WHAT DOES MY NAME MEAN?
WHAT IS MY VOCATION IN LIFE?
MYSTERY OF THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE
Meditating upon the presentation of Jesus in the
So act, also good Jesus,
that I profit from
the lessons
of your Presentation in the
It is in this place that you wanted
to sacrifice yourself lovingly
to God your Father
while your holy mother
was offering you at the altar.
You offered yourself completely
and unreservedly to him
for everything that would please him most.
You gave yourself irrevocably
and out of the full measure
of your love.
And what I admire most
in this exalted offering
is that in this moment
you sacrificed
a thousand beautiful and holy deeds
which were present to your mind
and which
might have been the beginning
of your preaching of the Gospel -
sooner and more fruitfully.
You choose instead
to depend totally
on the will of your Father
and to submit wholly
to the direction of the holy Virgin
and
In the imitation of this sacrifice
of your every wish
which you immolated
in order to depend
on the divine will alone,
should I not sacrifice my will
and my desires,
no matter how right they may seem to me
and in fact may be,
in order that I might submit
to the plan of your Father's Providence
and to the direction of my superiors.
Grant good Jesus,
that I might profit from my meditation
in this way.
Grant that, following this sacrifice,
I may live without willing,
without desiring,
without planning,
without resisting in the least
the plans of my superiors,
and that, in imitation of you,
I totally accept
every expression of the will
of your eternal Father."
(Writings of Jean-Pierre Médaille, pp. 116-117)