She is the first and greatest disciple

7/21/2015

Tes

7/20/2015 09:47:26 pm

Together with Mary, let us seek to be sharers in this death which brought forth fruits of "new life" in the Resurrection: a death like this on the Cross was infamous, and it was the death of her own Son! But precisely there, at the foot of the Cross, "where she stood, not without a divine plan", did not Mary realize in a new way everything that she had already heard on the day of the Annunciation? Precisely there, precisely through "the sword which pierced her soul " (cf. Lk 2:35), through an incomparable "kenosis of faith ", did not Mary perceive completely the full truth about her motherhood? Precisely there, did she not definitively identify herself with that truth, "rediscovering her soul", the soul which, in the experience of Golgotha, she had to "lose" in the most painful way for the sake of Christ and the Gospel?

(From: The Letter of the Holy Father John Paul II to all Consecrated Persons belonging to Religious Communities and Secular Institutes on the Occasion of the Marian Year)

Marissa Mendoza

7/21/2015 01:37:21 am

Needed to hear this today most especially.
Spes nostra ancilla Domine, ora pro nobis.

Eric, Lani, & our son Royce

7/22/2015 03:34:15 pm

We like this post about Mother Mary, Father Jeff. We are members of the Jr. Legion of Mary in Milpitas besides being Catechists there also.

She is the first and greatest disciple

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