13/05/2023

The "one-liner" that is today's Gospel asks us to think as deeply as we can how it has happened that today it is possible for us to reach out and receive as a gift, additional to our being, additional to our self, a garment of salvation which will conform us to the only "dress code" that really matters, if we are to enter the wedding feast of the Lord.

Jesus' apparent rejection of his mother together with other moments in the Gospels where Jesus does not fawn on her have been taken as evidence of the "false teaching" of the Catholic Church regarding Mary. I am told even by Catholic Theologians that the position of Mary in the story of revelation and worship has been in the past exaggerated. I do not know of any time in Church History, in the memory that is the New Testament, when Mary was ever separated in either event or Theology, from her Son except for the panic that was still about Jesus, the apparent loss of him in the Temple.

She lived the Perfect Life. God chose her from all eternity to fulfill his incarnation. Jesus is "begotten not made". He is "true man from true man". She is our "Yes"; the consent of human freedom to the will of God so that we can achieve what he deems necessary for the disobedience of the Garden to be cancelled out by the outpouring of Love on the Cross.

No human knows, loves and serves to a greater degree than she. No human heart has been filled with all human emotions as much as hers. She was there, Bethlehem to Calvary. How is it possible to not pray "Hail Mary" everyday at least once to thank God for her place in Creation.

Dear Lord,to know something of your purpose is only possible when supported by your grace. Your Saints in Heaven have completed their Missions but none more so than the Mother of the Church, Theotokos. You have founded your Church for each of us to support the others. May all Saints in heaven join Mary in her never ending pleas for us here on earth and all the souls in holy atonement in Purgatory.