Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart

19 JULY (Mt 11,28-30)

The Old Testament teaches us that human life comes from the knowledge and welcome of wisdom in his heart. This is a true prophecy.

Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice? On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand; By the gates at the approaches of the city, in the entryways she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call; my appeal is to the children of men. You simple ones, gain resource, you fools, gain sense. “Give heed! for noble things I speak; honesty opens my lips. Yes, the truth my mouth recounts, but the wickedness my lips abhor. Sincere are all the words of my mouth, no one of them is wily or crooked; All of them are plain to the man of intelligence, and right to those who attain knowledge. Receive my instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold. (For Wisdom is better than corals, and no choice possessions can compare with her.) “I, Wisdom, dwell with experience, and judicious knowledge I attain. (The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;) Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate. Mine are counsel and advice; Mine is strength; I am understanding. By me kings reign, and lawgivers establish justice; By me princes govern, and nobles; all the rulers of earth. “Those who love me I also love, and those who seek me find me. With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than pure gold, and my revenue than choice silver. On the way of duty I walk, along the paths of justice, Granting wealth to those who love me, and filling their treasuries. “The Lord begot me, the first-born of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; From of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water; Before the mountains were settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth; While as yet the earth and the fields were not made, nor the first clods of the world. “When he established the heavens I was there, when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep; When he made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth; When he set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not transgress his command; Then was I beside him as his craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, Playing before him all the while, playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in the sons of men. “So now, O children, listen to me; instruction and wisdom do not reject! Happy the man who obeys me, and happy those who keep my ways, Happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts; For he who finds me finds life, and wins favor from the Lord; But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.” Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns; She has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table. She has sent out her maidens; she calls from the heights out over the city: “Let whoever is simple turn in here; to him who lacks understanding, I say, Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed! Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding”. (Pro 8,1-9,6).

The eternal Wisdom in Christ Jesus became flesh and came to dwell among us, in order to give us grace and truth, to fill us to the brim with eternal life, and to give us back our essence that we had lost on the day of the first sin. All is from this incarnate Wisdom, and without it there is no true life in the heart of a man. Even in this, its mediation is universal. All life in all its forms is from this Wisdom.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

But what does exactly going to Christ Jesus in order to be restored by him mean? It means taking upon us his yoke which is light, his burden, which is sweet, his Law which can be lived, and his Gospel which can be observed. The restoration is a result of our obedience to the Word of Jesus. One goes to him, takes his Law, his Gospel, his Word, and observes it with an upright conscience, in fullness of faith, with charity in his heart and with a ready and solicitous obedience, and restoration, peace, and consolation invade the body, soul, and spirit. All of man will feel the presence of the grace of Jesus Christ that surrounds the heart and fills it of true peace.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels, and Saints give us the Word of Jesus.