Sunday, February 8, 2009

Find Jesus

God is love.

Mary is the Mother of God. She loved even when her son was persecuted, tortured, and killed.

Mary is the perfect example among humans for loving, especially for loving Jesus. Her heart yearns for all of humanity to know him as our Savior, and as his mother and spouse of the Holy Spirit, his graces are poured out through her.

Sometimes we struggle in our attempts to approach Jesus and to take him as our loving King, but sweet Mother Mary shows us how. We don't just imitate Mary, but we find Jesus through living her virtues of faith, charity, humility, patience, obedience, continual mental prayer, mortification, sweetness, purity, and wisdom.

We entrust our lives to the Holy Spirit in order to do God's will, but in doing so, we give ourselves also to the care and love of Mary. We promise to live out the virtues in order that the graces of God may be poured down upon us, and we ask for her intercession so that every struggle, suffering, joy, and petition may be made perfect before the Lord.

Challenge one another to love as Christ loves, and through Mary's example of humility and purity, submit to Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior.

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