Course XLVII - Teaching 4: Adoration in the Beginning of a Retirement (January 21st, 1954)

Divine Mother! We beseech you, oh Beloved Mother, to be nearer to you through a strict, quite faithful fulfillment of the Observance in order to be a part of You and co-substantial with You, with a perfect Observance ruling our lives in such a way that we become actively and truly none, and say, “Mother, I am not, You are; it is not me who lives, it is You who lives in me.
Mother, may we become so simple and needing it so much to forget ourselves, not to think so much of ourselves, of our problems, defects and difficulties, at a place that we may stay and where we may deserve it. We should work with the same joy on humble tasks.
We are nothing. We are like a table, a chair, or a car. A table is composed of cut wood taken from a larger wood; a car is composed of wheels, screws and axles; everything has been joined together and taken from something larger. Likewise with us that before your breath alone disappear and nothing remains of what we were.
So, Mother, we must only love to carry out what You order through Masters and Superiors. We must obey Her voice with simplicity and speed, not intervening our ego and our concerns at all; this is for the world. But we have the Observance as the practice of all virtues together, and our only aspiration must be its perfect fulfillment.
We must turn toward Masters and Superior with faith and trust, wholly and sincerely as a right and simple Son going to the Mother. Oh, Beloved Mother, our love and hope, grant us, Mother, this virtue to become more yours and You, Mother, be truly our only love! May we know how to hear the voice of our Superiors, which is Your Voice to surrender us on Your Arms like a newly born child, loving your rebukes and seeking to be mended, with the Mystical Death becoming a prelude, an early heaven.
Bless, Mother, at this Retirement Your Ordained Daughters, and Your Seminary, prevailing the Observance in a way that those who today are two, tomorrow perhaps two hundred, and after tomorrow, two thousand; and also bless your Solitary and Sponsored Sons of the world for the fulfillment of your Divine Work on Earth.