Mystical City of God - The Incarnation - Bk3 - Ch25 - The Journey back to Nazareth

Mystical City of God

The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda describes the journey back to Nazareth, and especially how the Virgin Mary dealt with people having difficulties, or perhaps difficult people. The Blessed Virgin Mary says, "My daughter, the faithful souls, and children of the Church, who know God, must make no distinction of time, place or occasions in the practice of faith and the other virtues connected with it. For God is present in all things and fills them with his infinite being (Jeremiah 23:24), and in all places and circumstances faith will enable them to see and adore Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:22). Just as preservation follows upon creation, and as breathing follows upon life, and just as there is no intermission in the breathing, nourishment, and growth of man until the end is reached: so the rational creature, after having been regenerated by the faith of grace, must never interrupt the course of the spiritual life, continually pursuing works of life by faith, hope and charity in all places and at all time (James 2:26). On account of their forgetfulness and carelessness, the children of men, and especially the members of the Church, possess the life of faith as if they had lost it, allowing it to die for want of charity."