“God sends to us the one who personifies His love: Mary, the spouse of the Spirit – a spirit of maternal love – immaculate, all beautiful, spotless, even though she is our sister, a true daughter of the human race.”

                                      -St Maximilian Kolbe

For Reflection:

How have I experienced an increase in Mary’s maternal love through my meditations of the Grace Lines this month? Have I experienced an increase of God’s love? In what specific ways?

The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life
by Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Pb 112 pgs
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Foreward  Page xi

Many persons familiar with the Gospel, if asked the question: ‘Does the Gospel anywhere mention the second conversion?’ would probably answer in the negative.  And yet our Lord makes a very clear statement on the subject…we read:  ‘Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, and said:  Amen I say to you, unless you be converted and become as little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’  Is this not an obvious reference to the second conversion?