Part II: Requirements of the Ideal Come and Listen to Your Mother Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: My brother, you are beginning to understand what I did for My Mother and what you should do after My example. You have not yet learned all she did for Me and all […]

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Live United with My Mother Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: I have yet another essential feature of My filial love for Mary to reveal to you: My life of union with her.  If for every child there is nothing sweeter than

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Have Confidence in My Mother Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: My brother, every child has confidence in its mother. I had supreme confidence in Mine. I trusted in her for My material needs. I feed the birds of the air and

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Resemble My Mother Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus My brother, children generally resemble their mother. I resembled Mine more than any child of man ever resembled his. Born of her alone, My features, My looks, My walk, My gestures, My whole

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Obey My Mother Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: My brother, do you wish to manifest your love for My Mother as I manifested Mine? Be obedient, then, as I was. As a little Baby, I let her do with Me what

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Love My Mother: The Way Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: 2. The Way My brother, do you really love her whom I love so much, and who loves you so much? You believe you do, for you feel joy when you

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Love My Mother: The Reason Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: 1. The Reason My brother, it is love which has made Me the Son of Mary. Everything in My relations with her is explained by love. If you wish to understand

Part II: Requirements of the Ideal To Imitate Me, Give Yourself to My Mother without Reserve Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus By becoming the Son of Mary, I gave Myself entirely to her.  Creator and Sovereign Master of all things, I willed, out of love, to belong to Mary and

Part I: The Ideal You Love Mary; Now Not You, But I Love Her in You Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus My brother, since My life is your life, and My Mother your Mother, it is easy for you to imitate My filial love toward her.  But you should not

Part I: The Ideal My Mother, Your Mother Madonna and Child – Bartolome Esteban Murillo – 1670 Jesus: My brother, you cannot really reproduce My filial love toward Mary unless you are, as I am, her child. Do you know to what extent you are a child of Mary? All the faithful think they know