MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK: giving all to the One we love

Posted on April 3, 2023 by franksantucci

Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

Jn 12:3

You, you alone will be the sole object to which will tend all my affections and my every action. To please you, act for your glory, will be my daily task, the task of every moment of my life. I wish to live only for you, I wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you. I despise riches, I trample honours under foot; you are my all, replacing all else. My God, my love and my all: Deus meus et omnia.

Notes made during the retreat in preparation for priestly ordination, December 1-21, E.O. XIV n.95

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One Response to MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK: giving all to the One we love

  1. Eleanor Rabnett, Lay Oblate says:
    April 3, 2023 at 13:06

    Mary whose love of Jesus was so great, that she used the oils that she had bought to use for his burial; anointing his feet as one would a king.

    “I wish to live only for you, I wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you. …you are my all, replacing all else.”

    Two examples of deep love that surpasses all else. There is such an extravagance of love portrayed by both Mary and Eugene, giving rise to this invitation to give “all to the One we love”.

    What might that look like for me today? Perhaps being present to the moment, each moment… and knowing that I am not alone in all of this. I cannot help but think of Jesus being present to each of us as we approach him. If I let go of all else and offer myself – all that I am and without measure… then I know that like Mary and Eugene’s love, it will be received without measure…

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