When we are young, we often have a reference model, a hero, a saint … we would like to become or at least look like. Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Bernaud proposes THE ideal model: Jesus Christ! Not only we are invited to imitate but by imitating we will discover the true meaning of our life! In this month of the Precious Blood of our Lord, our gaze dives into his pierced Heart!
“He has done all things well”
By incarnating to save sinful man, the noble Son of God was not content to pay his ransom price of blood. For his life was constituted as a true model for all and it indicated what route we should take to get to the homeland of eternal happiness.
The original fall had hurt us so deeply and consequently weakened our will. Before dying for us on the cross, Jesus fulfilled his reparative mission in the form of 33 years of his earthly life. He is the model to be copied as an adorable Copy to reproduce. Even today Jesus says to all and especially to honor Guards “watch me and do the same! “He is the model of all perfection.
Now all the beauty that shone the Savior’s life, all the kindnesses that he did, all the perfections that radiated from his sacred humanity, came from his very gentle and noble Heart.
First, he went to his God and Father, with love, glory, obedience due to Him, practicing the first of our duties, “one God you worship and love perfectly. “
Then He loved, served, tolerated, excused his neighbor and forgave him, teaching us charity, meekness and forbearance which we must have to our brothers.
Yes, we strive to copy our Adorable Model, pray as He prayed, work as He worked, suffer as He suffered … In our relationships, our conversations, our trials, our joys, we fix our eyes on the Divine Example in order to retrace every feature to perfection. The painter reproduces a masterpiece. God has set before us his Son so that we retrace his adorable likeness; This is the perfection of our daily actions where we gain the resemblance. Retrace the beauty of our Holy model so that God the Father could say to each of us, “You have done all things well. “