You know God has given us humans a wonderful thing - TIME - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week or one hundred sixty-eight hours from one week to the next. And you know what - we find ourselves running out of time when it comes to doing things that we should be doing, for instance making calls for the Legion, going to the weekly meeting or to the Curia meeting once a month.
When we really look at it that way, we sort of short change God, if we have made a pact with Him, or short changed the Blessed Mother if we are an active member of the Legion. Personally, I would rather short change a human rather than God or His Mother. And really what does the short change come up to - we may be tired - we may have some
sporting event to go to because we have some Grand kids playing a promised game - and we cannot disappoint them - we may have a friend that we have not seen for a long time, etc. I know because I have been there too, and you know what, all the while we are short changing either Him or His Mother there is something in the back of our brain telling us that we might have missed a tremendous opportunity to do some good for a certain person we have been praying for all along.
Now I am not trying to give you a guilt complex, we do that to ourselves, but when we realize just how many hours the Lord gives us, an excuse, no matter what it is unless we are sick, just does not seem to fill the situation. It's easy to miss things. We all do it at times and that is why once a month at the praesidium meeting we read something on page 109 that was put there for our renewal each month just to help us when we do not have time to do what we should.
Some will say that my outlook is very rigid. Let's put it this way. We are Legionaries, patterned after the great Roman armies that covered Europe nad parts of the Near East. Now if each soldier would decide on his own whether to follwo orders or not, the army would still be in Rome, and they were just after land and conquered peoples. Our plan of attack is quite a bit different - we are after souls - first of all ours, and then others whom we might bring back to God, or if they are in union
with God to make them closer to him. That is quite a different story! And what will they get? Probably o wreath of Laurels that will fit on their heads! What will you get? Judging from the Saints that have a great devotion to Mary and her Son, and everlasting happiness in heaven. I would say that that is quite a different payoff, and one that is really better than the poor Roman soldier who was willing to give his life for the Emperor.
Just a kindly thought when you would like to find an excuse for not going to the meeting or doing your visits - your God and Mother is waiting for you. Again - how much time do we have?
©2009 Fr. Louis Schlangen
When we really look at it that way, we sort of short change God, if we have made a pact with Him, or short changed the Blessed Mother if we are an active member of the Legion. Personally, I would rather short change a human rather than God or His Mother. And really what does the short change come up to - we may be tired - we may have some
sporting event to go to because we have some Grand kids playing a promised game - and we cannot disappoint them - we may have a friend that we have not seen for a long time, etc. I know because I have been there too, and you know what, all the while we are short changing either Him or His Mother there is something in the back of our brain telling us that we might have missed a tremendous opportunity to do some good for a certain person we have been praying for all along.
Now I am not trying to give you a guilt complex, we do that to ourselves, but when we realize just how many hours the Lord gives us, an excuse, no matter what it is unless we are sick, just does not seem to fill the situation. It's easy to miss things. We all do it at times and that is why once a month at the praesidium meeting we read something on page 109 that was put there for our renewal each month just to help us when we do not have time to do what we should.
Some will say that my outlook is very rigid. Let's put it this way. We are Legionaries, patterned after the great Roman armies that covered Europe nad parts of the Near East. Now if each soldier would decide on his own whether to follwo orders or not, the army would still be in Rome, and they were just after land and conquered peoples. Our plan of attack is quite a bit different - we are after souls - first of all ours, and then others whom we might bring back to God, or if they are in union
with God to make them closer to him. That is quite a different story! And what will they get? Probably o wreath of Laurels that will fit on their heads! What will you get? Judging from the Saints that have a great devotion to Mary and her Son, and everlasting happiness in heaven. I would say that that is quite a different payoff, and one that is really better than the poor Roman soldier who was willing to give his life for the Emperor.
Just a kindly thought when you would like to find an excuse for not going to the meeting or doing your visits - your God and Mother is waiting for you. Again - how much time do we have?
©2009 Fr. Louis Schlangen