The Way of Purity

By Isidoro D'Anna

We seem to have completely lost sight, in our society, of a mother willing to live and die for the innocence of her children.

And where in today’s world can we find purity – a distant memory from our very early years?

By the grace of Heaven, such a great and loving Mother exists for each of us: She is Mary, Mother of God and of Christians.

So let us follow Mary in the way of purity, and one day, as she has promised us, we will see the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Isidoro D'Anna
• Release date: Aug 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536508314

Isidoro D'Anna

Isidoro D’Anna has published A Book of Curious Tales (CreateSpace, 2013) and several books in his native Italian to share the beauty of life lived in faith.

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The Way of Purity

To be true children of Mary

Isidoro D’Anna

© 2016 Isidoro D’Anna

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Blessed are the pure in heart,

For they shall see God.

Mt 5:8

This book is for you

Dear Reader,

This book which you are about to read is dedicated to you in a special manner.

Certainly I would like to make it known to very many, but among all the others you are not just any person.

This is a message which regards your deepest desires and takes into account how precious you are in the eyes of God.

I have put it together in a short time, gathering some articles from the blog www.lucechesorge.org which I have been working on for a number of months.

However, the articles are anything but hurried; rather, I would define them as a distillation of faith and thought, above all on the subject of purity and modesty.

To know what purity is, perhaps it is enough to think about it a moment, to begin to have an idea of it.

Modesty, however, is a less common word – given the times in which we live – and here it denotes the purity we show in our behaviour, for example in our way of dressing and carrying ourselves.

Purity and modesty distinguish those who have the dignity of children of God.

With our Christian baptism we have been elevated to such a great dignity. Not only, but as Christians we become children of Mary Most Holy, the Immaculate, She whom God has chosen as Mother for Himself and for us.

Our Lady is our truest Mother. Her love and Her virtues surpass those of the greatest saints, as Heaven surpasses Earth.

Let us consider what an immense gift has been given to us with baptism: to be children of God and of Our Lady.

If however we then begin to accept sin, we trample on the dignity which has been given us.

Our Lady is, among other things, honoured with the title of Mother of Purity.

In this world which has lost its love of purity, the love for Our Lady will certainly be lacking too.

But is it worth selling ourselves, our soul, our eternal destiny in exchange for the miseries of this world?

Do we gain anything by becoming orphaned of God and of our Immaculate Mother, so that we can call ourselves children of such a world?

The problem is that hardly anyone, today, has parents who might help him to believe in God and in Our Lady. Openness to life, purity, and faithfulness to the Gospel are all lacking in today’s families.

For this reason there is now so much hatred for families and for children: because people have not had a true family, they have not been able to live as children, and they want to destroy this possibility also for others.

But we can break this perverse spell and lift our gaze to God and to Our Lady, who have never ceased loving us and taking care of us.

We can recover from the torments of the soul, of relationships, of society, if we invoke Our Lady and let ourselves be led by Her, by the hand, to the promised land.

I am not speaking of Israel, the promised land of the Jews. I am speaking of the land which will be reborn with the coming of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

It is the promise that Our Lady made us at Fatima in 1917. In the words of the Most Holy Virgin a warning also rang out: Certain fashions will come which will greatly offend Jesus.

A few years later, women in their dress, for the first time in Western Christian history, began to uncover their legs.

But we want to be men and women of faith, and to have Our Lord Jesus and Our Lady as our Models, in everything.

Let us pause then to consider purity and modesty, to comprehend their immense value and make of them our way of life.

Isidoro

To Our Lady, with the gaze of children

Mother, we are yours

Searching among existing images, even famous ones, it is difficult to find one which expresses the beauty of Our Lady.

The beauty of Mary Most Holy is not only a wondrous quality of Her exterior appearance. It reflects also Her incomparable humility, motherhood, tenderness, purity, holiness, Her peace, Her joy, and so forth.

The image of Our Lady of Tihaljina is perhaps the portrait less distant from the sublime figure of the Mother of God, who is our Mother.

She, so miraculously beautiful, so high above creation for being the most humble of all creatures, is our true Mother, if we are Christians.

Let us call Her, face to face, Mamma, with the trust of not being orphans, and of never having been, despite the life that we have perhaps had to live.

Only Mary Most Holy, of all humanity, was preserved from original sin and has become Mother, Mediatrix of all Graces, and Queen of Heaven and Earth.

She was the Sorrowful Mother at the foot of the Divine Son, crucified and dying, where She offered the sufferings of Jesus for our salvation, after having been able to feel them Herself.

Jesus, Our Lord, was formed in the womb of Our Lady. He grew under Her safe, perfect guidance.

Jesus wanted to come to us only through Our Lady, and we too can arrive at God only through Her.

Our Lady formed Jesus in the womb and during His life, and She can form Him in us and in our life.

For this reason it is necessary to consecrate ourselves to the Immaculate. The salvation of every human being is at stake, of every nation and of the whole world, since God has willed it to be so.

Looking to Our Lady we can rediscover the value of the woman and of the mother.

Woman was created to give life, to be a mother.

They are mothers, those women who beget children, to make of them children of God to take into Paradise.

They are spiritual mothers, those women who consecrate themselves entirely to God, bringing Him new children with their prayer, sacrifice and apostolate.

In both cases, Our Lady is the Supreme Model of maternal love and of virginal purity.

We must know how to understand the difference between lust and the vocation to Christian marriage, between earthly marriage and union with the Divine Spouse, Our Lord Jesus.

Whoever does not love Our Lady tenderly and profoundly, whether they say they