This sweet month dedicated to the Virgin Mary begins with the feast of St Joseph the Worker to be completed by the beautiful feast of the Visitation. In between, the Church invites us to live no less than four solemnities! So many good reasons to give thanks for all the benefits received and renew our “yes” to God’s “yes” to the Sacred Presence of Time Heart of Jesus … as our foundress, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Bernaud invited the honor guards of his era to do so:
Fiat!
That word is large, it is sublime in its origin, in its meaning and effect! The Fiat is a divine word destined to become bread for the humble soul, subject to God, and therefore to serve as daily food every true honor guard.
“In the beginning God said that light be shed, and light was made,” the first Fiat was an act of supreme power of God. Then comes the Fiat of the Incarnation made by the humble Virgin of Nazareth: “Be it done unto me according to your word.” The third Fiat was one of redemption, one that would give us the life we had lost by the sin of Adam, “My Father, here I come to do your will. “Later, Jesus himself taught his apostles that other Fiat in the Our Father:” Father thy will be done on earth as in heaven. “And the ultimate Fiat pronounced by Jesus, the sacrifice to save us,” Father, not my will but yours. “
By this, God shows us in the diversity of happy or unhappy events that make up our lives, every fiat pronounced with a filial and trusting heart is a providential plan to make us saints. We just nodded humbly by reiterating our Fiat. The life of the Virgin Mary is a long continuous Fiat, from the Incarnation to the Cross, she has continued to adhere perfectly to the divine will.
Following her example, each of us must live an uninterrupted concatenation of Fiat! With a submissive heart, humble, generous, we adhere to God’s will! What peace in our lives, if we, instead of rebelling against the trials, obstacles, sorrows … we humbly incline under the hand of God that frees us from pains to purify and shape our soul. A cross is loved and accepted no more than a half-cross. Bitterest of our suffering comes mostly from the opposition of our commitment to what afflicts us; resignation offered in our Fiat is the most effective cure for our wounded hearts. Every day, with Mary, repeat lovingly: “Be it done unto me, O God, according to your will! “We will not know until in heaven, the number of saints who have engendered the Divine Fiat!