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With Your Rule
Doing All for the Love of God
"The essence of our vocation - so hidden, so humble, so glorious - is to love God passionately by loving others. God loved us first, that is what our faith is all about. We must respond to that love and love Him back! Our houses should be hospices of love and service to others.
Our vocation is to do little things well for the love of God. This means monotonous things eternally repeated. But we... [must] connect doing these little things with spiritual truths... Every task, routine or not , is of redeeming , supernatural value because we are united with Christ...
God speaks to us then in the duty of every moment. We must ask the Lord to open our eyes so that we might see deeply the need of Christ and his pain in our fellow man. Then, seeing, we arise, no matter what the time or cost, and we hasten to help, to console..."
Catherine Doherty, "The People of the Towel and the Water", NJ, Dimension Books, 1978, p18
posted by Holly at 8:14 AM
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It's God we seek with a mother's rule - God and love. Our schedules are ways to organize our homes and free our hearts from concerns and worries about housework and the like, so we can be free to 'be'.
When we have reduced our preoccupation with the multi-tasks of motherhood through a basic organization and schedule, we can become recollected - brought to a stillness in our centers. And here we meet God personally. Here too we meet our family in a very real way. We can attend to our husband and our children in a truly attentive way - with our whole person ready and accepting and 'present', instead of thinking about cleaning the upstairs or getting the garbage out.
This is the goal of the 'schedule', and in reaching this, we have just reached the beginning of a new journey to the deeper realities of life - relationship, personal service, acceptance of the other, consolation and human warmth, intimacy and grace.
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