| Prayer to the Holy Child Under His Title of Great Little One |
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O Very amiable Child Jesus, known as the Great Little One, grant me the grace to understand all the deep truths expressed by this title and to realize its lessons. You are little by Your human nature, little b the state of childhood into which Your love has reduced You and by the rank You wanted to take among mankind, in order to enlighten and save us. You are a Holy Child. But at the same time, You are great, beyond any greatness. You are great by Your Divine nature, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, absolutely infinite. You are great by Your Person, the Person of the Word, in all equal to the Divine Persons of the Blessed Trinity. You are great by the splendor of mercy and the source of all our grace and holiness. This is why, Holy Child, You inspire us so much. To secure my salvation and to become worth of it, I, too, must be little and great. I am little by the imperfection of my nature, by the lamentable state in which original sin has left me, by the consequences of my own sins. But, in order to imitate your littleness and humility, I must become aware of this state of mine, I must have a permanent conviction thereof, which will inspire my prayers and all my hopes in heaven, my attitude toward all my neighbours. I have to be little in order to resemble You. I must also be great. This I am, by the eternal destiny You provided for me and all the possibilities of potential perfection You have created in me. I must become great by the reality of the virtues and of the grace, by the richness of the supernatural gifts, the aim of which is to make me similiar to You, to take part in Your eternal inheritance, the heavenly beatitude. Grant me, O Jesus, the grace to reproduce in myself the resemblance of your Littleness and Greatness; Be, O Divine Great Little One, the model and the source of my salvation and my holiness. Amen. |
