“When St. John reminds us that especially at the beginning one cannot constantly be in contemplation, he says that the soul should then ever in all its thoughts, acts, good deeds and undertakings have recourse to holy thoughts and meditations, from which it will draw more fervent piety and greater advantage. But above all, should it resort to the life, the sufferings and the death of Jesus Christ, to teach itself to imitate Jesus’ life; to yield in everything, in all its acts and deeds, in life and death. Who can be better company than Mary, who kept all Jesus’ words in her heart and stood, when He died, under the rood-tree? St. John points this out himself when he says that the soul that strives after nothing but the perfect fulfillment of the law of God and the carrying of Christ’s cross will be a true Tabernacle, which will contain the veritable Manna, Christ Himself. Can we not alter these words thus: He will be another Mary, called daily and aptly the Ark of the New Covenant?”
St. Titus Brandsma
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