6th day of "Month of Mary", prayer book by Bl. Francisco Palau OCD.
Sixth Day: The Lily: After the rose all the great family of lilies occupy a preferential place in our gardens, and from them we take that which stand out all of them. The lily stands erect towards the sun and inclines it head when it passes. Its colour is pure white and its fragrance so strong that its excess almost hurts the weak and sick sense of smell.
II. The Catholic faith
2. The lily is the emblem, figure and image of purity of the soul. Understand that it is purity, not chastity that results from the union of the soul with God. The soul is pure as much as it unites intensively with the purity, that is God, and since this union is founded on faith, hope and love; faith is the beginning of her purity: Fide purificans corda eorum. Faith makes the soul ascend and elevates it to God; it ascends rectified by the contemplation of the eternal truth; it looks at it and in its presence covers its face and bows its head. …More