Knowledge of Jesus: Day One

Christ Pantocrator, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, photo by Andrew Shiva

Day twenty seven at Fish Eaters.

Day twenty seven at The Catholic Company.

The reading today is from True Devotion. Why do this devotion? Ultimately the reason should be Jesus. This morning as I was driving to Mass, the thought came to me: "Why do we do anything?" The right answer, which shouldn't surprise Christians, is that we should do it because we love Jesus (and this we pray for: "grant us the grace of your most divine love, that we may love you with all our hearts, and in all our words and actions, and never cease to praise you"). When we sin, we have either forgotten Jesus, or we've pushed him away. 

There has been no other name given under heaven, except the name of Jesus, by which we can be saved. God has laid no other foundation of our salvation, of our perfection, and of our glory, except Jesus Christ. Every building which is not built upon that firm rock is founded upon the moving sand, and sooner or later will fall infallibly.

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If, then, we establish the solid devotion to our Blessed Lady, it is only to establish more perfectly the devotion to Jesus Christ.