We have no need to dwell at any length on the zeal of her whom JESUS
used as His instrument during the nine months. Mary's was a zeal which
compelled her to spend and be spent in the service of those whom JESUS
loved; and the secret of its force was the interior life which she lived
with her Son--a perfect union of will and purpose with His.
Let me try to copy my Mother in her interior life and then I may hope
that her Son will use me too as an instrument of some of His zeal for
souls. He must use someone, for He has made Himself as dependent now in
the Tabernacle as He was during the time that He lived in Mary. He has
deliberately put Himself in the position of _needing_ instruments for
His work and He will naturally choose those who are most imbued with His
spirit and who are willing to adopt His methods. Such an instrument was
Mary. She put no obstacles in His way, because she had no will apart
from His, her zeal was only a reflexion of His.