Following Father's Example

Trusting Mary

“We are called to imitate the Father, and the Father entrusted everything to Mary: His beloved Son.  We are to follow this example and give ourselves fully to Mary.

What does giving ourselves to Our Lady mean?  It means going to Jesus and accepting the gift He has bestowed on us:  The gift of His Mother.  It means taking her into all our affairs, concerns, worries, and tasks - letting go of ourselves and being formed anew as children, by Mary.  We can learn to think and live as she, the Immaculate, does.  We can be in Mary’s “school” through daily recitation of the Rosary.  We can talk to her confidently as her children in prayer, entrusting to her our concerns; we can meditate on the Word of God with her, asking her to teach us how to trust and live her fiat at each moment.  We can learn about her virtues, so as to live as she did.

If we are called to a life of trust, from whom shall we learn but from Mary, for how did Jesus learn to trust in ABBA in His humanity, if not from her?”
 ( Stepping On The Serpent: The Journey of Trust with Mary p112)

Make this Christmas Season especially fruitful by placing your trust in our Heavenly Mother as Jesus did.  She wants to help.

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Mary Is Our Model Of Faith And Our Perpetual Help

Mary Is Our Model Of Faith And Our Perpetual Help

The Blessed Virgin lived in such physical proximity and loving intimacy with her divine Son as no one ever has or can hope to experience.  She was with Him, near Him and close to Him physically and emotionally as only a loving mother can be close to the child whom she brought into the world. Mary was always thinking of Jesus.

She believed that this Infant, this Child, this young Man was no mere human being. She knew He was human, but she believed in His divinity because her mind penetrated beyond the veils of what her eyes and ears and hands could experience. Faith penetrates. Faith sees. Faith knows what the senses cannot perceive and even the human reason cannot comprehend. Mary saw. It cannot be too strongly emphasized or too often insisted that Mary had to live by faith. She saw only a helpless, speechless baby, yet she believed He was the almighty Word of God.

This is the first foundational lesson we learn from Mary in our veneration of the Holy Eucharist. Like her, we must come before the Blessed Sacrament with total undiluted faith. We believe that which the pagan, sophisticated, over-educated world tells us is a dream. When we come before the Blessed Sacrament, we need to break through the crust of what the senses perceive and what the mind rationally would tell us, believing more than we can see, believing more than we can touch, believing more than we can experience with our senses or even fathom with our minds. This is why we speak of Our Lady as the model of our faith. “Oh Mary, Virgin most faithful, pray for us that our faith may become more and more like yours.”

If you need to grow your faith visit the Adoration Chapel and ask Mary for her help.  As our heavenly Mother she is committed to help.  Our Adoration Chapel is available to everyone.

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