Lay Your Wearied Head On His Open Breast

You are full of weaknesses. Every day you see them more clearly. But don’t let them frighten you. He well knows you can’t yield more fruit.

Your involuntary falls—those of a child—show your Father God that he must take more care, and your Mother Mary that she must never let you go from her loving hand. Each day, as our Lord picks you up from the ground, take advantage of it, embrace him with all your strength and lay your wearied head on his open breast so that you’ll be carried away by the beating of his most loving heart.

                  -St. Josemaría Escrivá, The Way, 884

Oh St. Josemaría Escrivá, who was canonized by Blessed John Paul II, pray for us on this day of your feast, that our weary hearts receive grace enough to take refuge in the Lord and His Mother.