“Only the strong man can exercise living patience, can take upon himself again and again the things that are; only he can always begin anew. Patience without strength is mere passivity, dull acceptance, growing accustomed to being a mere thing.”                                                                                    -Romano Guardini     For Reflection: What characteristic marks a patient person? Why? Do I see myself as this kind of a person? Why or why not? (See tomorrow’s Grace Line for encouragement if you feel you fall short.)

53.  What Lucifer has lost by pride, Mary has gained by humility.  What Eve has damned and lost by disobedience, Mary has saved by obedience.  Eve, in obeying the serpent, has destroyed all her children together with herself, and has delivered them to him; Mary, in being perfectly faithful to God, has saved all her children and servants together with herself, and has consecrated them to His Majesty.