It's Social Networking! It's Great Preaching!NO, It's OBEDIENCE! (Shudder) Ever see Lion King? Sometimes I think that "obedience" is like the word "Mufasa." It sends chills up our spine and lends a strange pounding to the chest. Another image that comes to mind is Jacob Marley, weighed down by chains that imprison his every move. Still, another image that comes to mind is St. Maximilian peacefully offering his life to save Francis Gajowniczek.
This last image is the power of supernatural obedience, daily uniting ourselves to the will of the Immaculata - that is the Will of God. St. Maximilian was not under duress, fear, or compulsion. By being obedient to God - accepting what came from His hand, seeking in prayer His Will, falling and getting up again, curbing his tenacity and personal desire to conform to the (non-sinful) wishes of his authority figures and religious superiors.
St. Maximilian gave his life in obedience, like Christ, freely and lovingly. This kind of supernatural obedience, conforming our will to the Will of God so that we can be transformed through the right use of our will and intellect, can, does, and will transform the world.
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