A piece of wood...

But his power is regulated by his love. He wishes to become incarnate in order to convince men of his friendship; he wishes to come down upon earth to help men to go up to heaven. So be it! It would be expected then that this Wisdom incarnate would appear glorious and triumphant, accompanied by millions and millions of angels, or at least by millions of chosen men and women. With these armies, majestic in his splendour and untouched by poverty, dishonour, humiliations and weaknesses, he will crush all his enemies and win the hearts of men by his attractiveness, his delights, his magnificence and his riches. Surely nothing less than that. But O wonder! He perceives something which is a source of scandal and horror to Jews and an object of foolishness to pagans. (cf. 1 Cor 1.23)  He sees a piece of vile and contemptible wood which is used to humiliate and torture the most wicked and the most wretched of men, called a gibbet, a gallows, a cross. It is upon this cross that he casts his eyes; he takes his delight in it; he cherishes it more than all that is great and resplendent in heaven and on earth. He decides that that will be the instrument of his conquests, the adornment of his royal state. He will make it the wealth and joy of his empire, the friend and spouse of his heart. O the depths of the wisdom and knowledge of God! (Rom 11.33)  How amazing is his choice and how sublime and incomprehensible are his ways! But how inexpressible his love for that cross! 

St. Louis de Montfort
The Love of Eternal Wisdom

O loving Jesus,
O Crucified Redeemer,
in the secret of my heart,
teach me Your Eternal Wisdom.
Amen.

Jesus in Mary

God is everywhere; but nowhere is He closer to us, and more adapted to our humanity, than in Mary. It was to make Himself nearer and dearer to us that He came to dwell in her. Everywhere else He is the Bread of the strong, the Bread of the angels. In Mary He is the Bread of the little ones.

~St. Louis de Montfort

O Jesus living in Mary, how happy I am to be one of Your little ones!