On day eight of the novena in preparation ofPentecostwe ask the Holy Spirit to purify us from every stain and during our visit to Mary Immaculate we meditate on the passion and the need to deny ourselves. Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary. Ave Maria!
A Month with Mary by Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo
Day #17: The Passions and the Flesh
MARY: The demon penetrates into you by means of the passions and,if you do not deny yourself, your battle against the demon is vain and fruitless. A passion is a disordered movement of your physical being or of your soul which makes you forget the high supernatural end to which you tend and reduces you within yourself. It is the keen desire for relief, for comfort that you look for in the mire because mire is all you see around you when you lose sight of your ultimate end. It is a reaction to the law of God when you don?t see its beauty and harmony; it is a rebellion agai
