The restoration of innocence
We can and should ask Our Lady to restore our innocence and tell her:
‘There are moments, my Mother, in which my soul feels touched by an ineffable yearning. I long for the times in which I loved Thee, and Thou loved me in the vernal atmosphere of my spiritual life. I yearn for Thee, my Lady, and for the paradise which placed in me the great communication I had with Thee.
‘Doth Thou not also, my Lady, long for that time? Dost Thou not long for the goodness which existed in this son that I once was?
‘Come, therefore, the best of all mothers, and for the love of that which was blossoming in me, restore me; recompose in me that love for Thee, and make of me the complete realization of that son without stain which I would have been had I not been so miserable.
‘Give me, O my Mother, a repentant and humbled heart, and make shine anew before my eyes that which through the splendor of Thy grace I had once began to love so very much!
‘Remember, O Lady, this David and all the sweetness Thou didst place in him. So be it!’[1]
[1] Reflections on innocence by Prof. Plinio Correa de Oliveira in 1974. Not revised by the author before publication.
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