An Unworldly Heart - 2 Pillars #26

On the fifth day of the Novena to the Holy Spirit we ask for a pure heart to love God and for the visit to Mary we meditate on how we should live in the world without living its spirit.
Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary
Ave Maria!
A Month with Mary by Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo
Day #14: The Spirit of the World
MARY: You live in the world and you cannot withdraw yourself from it materially, but you must be therewithout living in its spirit.What a turbulent whirlwind is the world! It lives on egotism because it lives with a fixation on pleasure. No ideal lifts it up beyond that of the material and even when it seems to have an ideal, it seeks only itself in vainglory and applause, in other words in the sensory satisfaction of a passion. From whence is born duplicity, fraud, lies, injustice, showing off, pride, impurity Hence the world is like a sea during a storm, which knows no peace; he who falls i