“In the first place he glorifies in Mary, that she, whom the Angel called full of grace, was wholly filled of the Holy Spirit, always let herself be led by the Holy Spirit, an ideal that we must strive at in our ascent to God. St. John (of the Cross) admits that it is not easy to never evade this guidance. It is true, so he says, that one can barely find one soul that, in everything and at all times, acts under God’s guidance and remains so constantly united with Him that its faculties, without one or other image acting as a medium, are immediately led by God. Nevertheless, there are those for whom that guidance of God is the usual condition. They do not act of their own urge, but to them the word of St. Paul applies that the children of God, who are united with Him and reborn in Him, are led by the Spirit of God to divine works. No wonder that their works are called divine, because divine is the union of their souls with God. As example of a soul that always followed the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he then cites Mary: the ‘most glorious – la gloriosa – Mother of God. From her earliest beginning she was raised to this estate. Never in her was imprinted the image of a creature that could draw her away from God, and consequently she was never led or driven by something like it. Her motivation was always the Holy Spirit.'”
Bl. Titus Brandsma
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