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Moment of Reflection
A WIDOW
This is a wonderful theme. Thought, indeed, that would lend itself to very many reflections,
all of them beautiful and useful for our spiritual life,
but let us confine ourselves to the family environment.
Widow, today, within the family:
It could be seen as a new state:
the widowhood. How many new problems arise, just after the disappearance of her husband ...;
life seems to have more sense!
It could be seen in his new relationship with the children ...
orphaned father ...
It could be seen in his relationship with the daughter,
the son-in-law or with the father ...
But the widow could also be seen, always within the family, in their spiritual walk ...
Today with you rather see this WIDOW their duty to Grow Spiritually
through a life of abandonment to the Will of the Father!
There are widows who, before the suffering, slaughter, discouraged;
close on themselves, selfishly,
without caring if your despondency is slowly destroying his entire family:
sons, husbands or wives who have no 'fault' that she had been widowed!!
A person could apply these words that John Paul II said in his homily for Christmas 1979.
He said: "How many times man is crushed by fate itself.
How often is his prisoner ...
How many times is close to despair and feel threatened,
in conscience, the sense of humanity itself.
And many times, despite all appearances, the man himself remains dissatisfied. "
The reality is this: there is suffering in our own lives!
Indeed, 'It is usual thing to say that everyone's life is woven also suffering, pain.
The pain is like a dress: either a color or another, everyone must wear '.
True life is born of pain and pain develops.
"The story of not a few converts shows us that, not infrequently,
the pain, the suffering was the path the Lord has chosen
Si to bring many souls seeking God, the ABSOLUTE. "
A widow who indulges in a state of victimhood because they do not understand the value of suffering,
live to the fullest impatient with everything and everyone ...
The advice she could be suggested to St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori.
"To dares you well with your neighbor (with your family ...)
5 things you need to: -
1 - a glass of science;
2 - a bottle of wisdom;
3 - a barrel of prudence;
4 - of a barrel of consciousness;
5 - and an ocean of patience!
A widow will not accept these too easily even at his old age. I mean:
When you realize that your life is soon to end,
exactly like a paper boat placed in the creek by children's hands,
or when, painfully, finds that his dreams of greatness, of vanity,
autonomy are torn or curled like a dry leaf thrown into the fire,
if your life has not been molded with a continuous dose of spirit of abandonment to the Will of the Father in heaven,
hardly live happily in the last days of his life.
Complaining will not easily be accepted by others.
In this case she deserves the rebuke that Paul Claudel went to a young man who always complained:
"My boy, do not not worry too by beings not understood by others;
before you ask yourself what do you do to understand and support others "!
However this widow SUFFERS and must solve the problem of your suffering! Given the disease,
this reality that can completely kill your joy,
that can radically disrupt their ideals, as she behaves?
Where to find the solution to your suffering?
The materialistic and hedonistic world does not know an answer to this pain.
Only the Christian world, only our faith can give an answer to the problem of suffering:
It's called: abandon yourself WILL OF THE FATHER!
WIDOW Dearest, if by chance you feel still involved in pain
I ask that you do not let yourself be destroyed by sadness.
Abandon yourself with great confidence, that the Will of the Father is always better than ours.
Your husband was called by our Father, merciful and compassionate, he tells you, with St. Augustine:
If you love me, do not cry!
"If you knew the immense mystery of Heaven, where I now live, this endless horizon,
this light that penetrates and coats everything, not chorarias, if you love me!
I'm already absorbed the charm of God, in His infinite beauty.
Remain in me your love, an enormous tenderness that neither you can not imagine. I live in a pure joy.
In the anguish of time, think this house where one day we will be reunited after death,
killing headquarters in endless source of joy and infinite love.
Do not cry if you love me truly! (St. Augustine).
Sister, enjoys time of life that the Lord still gives you to prepare yourself for the big meeting
that you have with your dear husband; further purifies your soul.
Those faults, large or small, you made with your husband,
with your children, if you have not done,
confesses it all in the sacrament of penance,
so they are all destroyed in the Infinite Mercy of the Father of Heaven
Now you will be at peace and to get you started a new life:
prayer life, with frequent Mass, the soul of your husband and for you;
life to the service of the apostolate of the Church and further away from religious practice;
life of the practice of corporal works of mercy and spiritual life aggregated parish organizations etc.
It's NEW LIFE, FULL OF PEACE! - Wish you all this to heart!
+ Blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
descend upon you and now attracts all your love for Him and stay forever - Amen!