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"Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills with God's will, she cannot fail to be a woman who loves. We sense this in her quiet gestures, as recounted by the infancy narratives in the Gospel. We see it in the delicacy with which she recognizes the need of the spouses at Cana and makes it known to Jesus. We see it in the humility with which she recedes into the background during Jesus' public life, knowing that the Son must establish a new family and that the Mother's hour will come only with the Cross, which will be Jesus' true hour (cf. Jn 2:4; 13:1). When the disciples flee, Mary will remain beneath the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25-27); later, at the hour of Pentecost, it will be they who gather around her as they wait for the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14)." — (God Is Love)
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I saw this picture in our paper yesterday. I cut it out and it is hanging on the fridge. The article was pretty decent..considering.
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Lovely thoughts there. It's funny when I was praying the rosary last night and was meditating about the wedding in Cana and something struck me that never had done before. Mary ignored Jesus. When he told her his time had not come, she just told the servants what to do, knowing, as a mother often does, best. It almost made me chuckle in a way, as it seemed such a normal motherly reaction one I've witnessed and performed many many times, but only with Our Lord and Savior as the child in question. I love it when you find a piece of everyday humanity in scripture like that.
ReplyDeleteChristine, Pretty decent is good...considering. ;-)
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I have had that same realization and it is an awesome piece of humanity. It just goes to show that Our Lady did, as Our Holy Father said, "think with God's thoughts and will with God's will."