Aren’t their times we
feel like we’ve lost Jesus, and living in some kind of darkness and confusion?
And with that confusion we lack trust and our faith begins to dwindle, and God
becomes foreign to us. Sometimes we look for inspiration, a person of great
faith to lift our spirits and to help us see Jesus more clearly.
And we have that person, our Blessed Mother, whose
faith was and is beyond our understanding; she believed in the words of the
Angel, and when she agreed to become the Mother of God, and with that trust in
her God, she accepted a mystery which she did not fully understand. She
recognized God in her heart. From that yes, The Canticle of Mary, the prayer of
Mary that we know as the Magnicat, lifts up our spirit with hope.
And when the world
seems to be collapsing on us, when the confusion in our faith and trust in God
becomes an obstacle in our spiritual life, when the road to spiritual happiness
is overshadowed by doubt, when we can’t recognize Jesus amid all this
confusion, call on Mary, our spiritual Mother.
It is said that when
we reflect on the Blessed Mother in prayer with trust, and belief, confident
that our prayers will be answered, we find life, and that life is Jesus Christ.
Yes, Mary has power and takes our prayers to Jesus by presenting them unblemished
as a gift fit for a King. The intersession of Mary, our Mother is beyond powerful,
it is real and it is potent.
The Blessed Mother
wants nothing more than to rekindle, give life to the spark that unites us with
her Son. Yes, to re-connect and help us find Him, to recognize His voice when
he speaks to us.
Today we should be anticipating God not with distress
and trembling but with rejoicing, because he has filled the hungry with good
things, like our Blessed Mother did on that joyous day the very first Christmas
Pray to Mary to bring
you to her Son. Before and especially while approaching the altar, our concentration
must be on the gift of Jesus that we about to receive. St. Paul tells us “Let us keep our eyes fixed
on Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings us to perfection.” That’s how we
recognize Jesus with our eyes fixed on him.
Pray to Mary, our
Mother is so much like we are, she has a heart just like our heart, is made for
joy and laughter. A heart like ours for suffering and tears that like us has shed
many times. She is our Mother who wants only the best for her children. A
mother to console us.
