Newsletter #61 – Our Lady of Mount Carmel USA

Dear Friends and Benefactors,

The Heart of God The Father is The First Foundation of The Devotion to The Immaculate Heart of Mary. The inexhaustible fountain is the fourth symbolic picture of the Immaculate Heart of Mary the Queen of heaven and earth.

MARY’S HEART, THE INEXHAUSTIBLE FOUNTAIN (Part 2)

MARY’S HEART IS A FOUNTAIN OF MILK, OF HONEY, OF OIL AND OF WINE

But it is not enough to love life without furnishing the substance to nourish and sustain it. For
this reason, Mary’s maternal Heart is not only a fountain of living and life-giving waters; it is,
moreover, a fountain of milk, of honey, of oil and of wine.

Her heart is a fountain of milk and honey

It is a fountain of milk and honey, for we hear the Divine Spouse saying to Mary: “Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue,” (Cant. 4, 11) which means, “Thy words are full of sweetness and tenderness, and thy Heart must consequently be filled with them.” Mary’s heart and tongue always agree, and there is perfect conformity between her words and her sentiments. If therefore she has milk and honey in her mouth, she must also have them in her Heart; and they are under her tongue and upon her lips only because her Heart is filled with incomparable sweetness.

Hence, the inspired words: “My spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above the honey and the honeycomb.” (Ecclus. 24, 27) We must, therefore, conclude that her Heart is a real fountain of milk and honey, whose streams flow incessantly into the hearts of her children, thus verifying the saying of the Holy Ghost: “. . . you shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knee, (she) shall caress you, as one whom the mother caresseth.” (Isa. 66, 12-13) Happy are they who raise no obstacles to the fulfilment of these consoling words! Happy are those who do not close their ears to the voice of the sweetest Mother constantly crying: “As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation.” ( Peter 2, 2) Come, my well-beloved, come, taste of my honey and drink of my milk, that you may taste and see how sweet and delightful it is to serve and love Him Who has made me so amiable and tender towards His children, and how my Heart is full of love and affection for those who love me in return. “I love them that love me.” (Prov. 8) We see therefore that the Heart of the Mother of Fair Love is a fountain of milk and honey for all her children, especially for those who are still weak, tender and delicate, not yet capable of taking more solid food.

Her Heart is also a fountain of oil and of wine

It is also a fountain of oil, that is, of mercy for all sinners. It is, moreover, a fountain of wine to give strength and vigor to the weak and comfort to the sorrowful and afflicted, according to the divine words: “Give strong drink to them that are sad: and wine to them that are grieved in mind.” (Prov. 31, 6)

All those who comfort other men for the sake of charity, and, above all, who work for the
salvation of their neighbor, should be inebriated with the wine of divine love! Also such as these our charitable Mother, ever burning with zeal for the salvation of souls, cries in a loud voice:
“Come, children, come beloved of my Heart, come, draw from the fountain of your Mother’s Heart the heavenly wine of divine love; drink long and deep; filled with the rapture of the spirit, you need fear no excess. ‘Drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.’ (Cant. 5, 1) Drink of this pure wine, father of virginity and of all holy virgins. ‘Wine springing forth virgins.’ (Zach. 9, 17) This heavenly wine fills the Seraphim with delight; it inebriated the Apostles of my Divine Son; it filled the Redeemer Himself with holy rapture when, in the excess of His love for you, He renounced the grandeurs of His divinity and humbled Himself in the lowly crib and on the ignominious Cross. Drink with Him of this delicious wine, that you may forget and despise what the world loves and esteems, that you may love and value God alone, and exert yourself with all your strength to establish the reign of His love and His glory in the souls of men. Thus will you become the beloved children of His Heart and of my own.

Who will give me a voice strong enough to be heard in all the world, crying to all men: “All
you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: Come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.” (Isa. 55, 1)

You who thirst vainly after the false honors of the world, come instead to the most honorable
Heart of the Queen of Heaven, and you will learn by the example of this Heart’s thirst for the glory of God alone, that true honor consists in following His Divine Majesty: “It is great glory to follow the Lord.” (Ecclus. 23, 38) Every other honor is only smoke, vanity and illusion. You who thirst after the riches of earth, come hither, and you will find incomparable treasures.

Our Lady asks of you only one thing, which is, that if you seek to taste the sweetness of the milk and honey flowing from the fountain of her Heart, and experience the potency of its wine, you
must renounce all evil feasting and give up all tasting of the wine of the demons. It is impossible to drink of the chalice of Our Saviour and of the goblet of the devil, to partake of the heavenly banquet of God and at the same time to eat at the table of the devil (I Cor. 10, 21) You must choose between them. It should be so very easy to make your choice!

Consider how strange it is! The world offers nothing but crumbs and dregs of feasting, empty
fame, wealth and fleeting pleasure, but it sells you these stale crumbs and dregs at the costly price of worry, pain, bitterness, restlessness, anguish, often even at the price of your very life. As Sacred Scripture exclaims: “Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you?” (Isa. 55, 2) Furthermore, the libations that the world sells so dearly are not only stagnant and bitter, completely unable to satisfy you in this life, but their venom is poison bringing eternal death. What satisfaction Can you possibly expect to derive from waters as bitter as those of Egypt? (Jer. 2, 18)

On the other hand, the Divine Son of God and of Mary offers you the refreshment and rapture of
the fountain of the fulness of the House of God, of which you are free to drink forever. O what blind, blind folly it is to choose the goblet of sin instead of the chalice of Our Saviour! God Himself has exclaimed in amazement at this, through the prophet Jeremias, saying: “Be astonished, O ye heavens at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate.. . . For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” (Jer. 2, 12-13)

O dearest Lord, have pity on such wretchedness, and by the Immaculate heart of Thy most blessed Mother, grant unto us the living water that flows from Thee through the miraculous fountain of her Heart. Regulate in our hearts the dangerous thirst for worldly things and grant us instead the thirst that burns only to please Thee, to love Thee, to seek our delight and refreshment in following Thy Holy Will, in imitation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, fountain of sweetness and grace, who knew no joy or paradise except to accomplish Thy Divine Will most perfectly.

Fr. Pancras Raja
Spiritual Director
September 8, 2021

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