Daily Devotional Based on the Spiritual Classic He And I

What you can’t manage yourself- the control of your words, or the thought of My Presence-you will find easier with the help of My Mother. Ask Her to help you. I confided Mary Magdalene and the holy women to her. Be like them and don’t leave Her. (Jesus, February 13, 1943 to Gabrielle Bossis).

Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, ² and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Mag′dalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, ³ and Jo-an′na, the wife of Chu′za, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means. (Luke 8:1-3).

²⁵ So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag′dalene. (John 19:25).

¹⁸ Mary Mag′dalene went and said to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her. (John 20:18).

O Lord today we celebrate a beautiful feast day! St. Mary Magdalene whom You delivered from seven demons. A saint with a past. We all have a past. O Lord You healed so many women who followed You. And while the Bible does not tell us this explicitly, we can just picture Our Lady, Your Mother, taking them all under Her Mantle and forming them in the faith You were teaching them especially by Her beautiful example as one who always did Your Will perfectly. And today we can do the same. Many of us may have had conversions in our lives, and we want to follow You, but then we slip up and we have no idea what to do next or how to get back on track because we keep sinking on the waves like Peter rather than keeping our eyes fixed on You! Yet You give us Your Mother, Our Mother, to teach us, to console us, and to gently guide us back to You! St. Louis Marie de Montfort tells us God is raising up in these times saints filled with the Holy Spirit and the spirit of Mary. The Holy Spirit flies, St. Louis Marie de Montfort tell us, into souls consecrated to You through Mary! So let us join the Holy Women like our saint today in asking Mary to help us get to know You, love You, serve You, and live in union with You! Fiat!