08/22/2023
Happy feast day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! 🩵🕊️
//Múlier, ecce filius tuus. Deinde dicit discípulo: Ecce mater tua// "Woman, behold thy son. After that He saith to the disciple: Behold thy Mother."
In John 19:25-27, today's gospel, when Jesus gives John his mother, John represents all of humanity. In our Lord's final moments, beaten, broken, stripped of his clothes, deprived of food and water, the only thing he had left was his mother at the foot of his cross; yet in that moment, he surrendered the person he loved most to us so that we can have her as our spiritual mother to help lead us closer to Him. Just as any good mother, she wants to help us in our lives, our marriages, our families, and our pursuit to getting closer to her son. So invite her. Welcome her. Ask her to help in your journey, in whatever season of life you are in. Take her into your home, as Jesus told us to do on the cross.
Although today's not a holy day of obligation, I encourage you to find a special way to honor our Blessed Mother; go to mass, say a rosary, wear blue, plant a flower in her honor, contemplate on her life and her virtues, etc.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us! 💝