It is not
the objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
- Frederick Buechner
(The "experience of God's presence:" let this be your deepest
longing.)
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1 COR 15:1-11; PS 118:1B-2, 16AB-17, 28
JN 19:25-27
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the
disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
Gospel LK 2:33-35
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
Mary, you are the mother of compassion. We can turn to you in any suffering we have. We know that you can and will understand. You can and will be with us in our journey.
O, Mother, so familiar with sorrow, please place me with your Son. Help me to remember his love for me. O, Mary,
faithful witness at the foot of your Son's cross, help me to be faithful each day to being grateful for what Jesus did, what he won for me. Fill my heart with compassion. Help me to imitate your Son in loving others, in being able to sacrifice my needs for theirs. Help me to love completely, as you taught Jesus to love with all his heart.
I am so sorry for what my sin has
done to cost you so much pain, such terrible loss. I am comforted to know that you now know the full scope of what your Son has done as our Lord and Savior. Help me to give him thanks with your grateful heart.
O, Mother of Sorrow and Fidelity, help me to be with your Son and more and more like him.
- by Andy Alexander, S.J.
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Eleventh Revelation, Chapter 25
“I wot well that thou wouldst see my blessed
Mother. . . .”
“Wilt thou see in her how thou art loved?”
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But hereof am I not learned to long to see her bodily presence while I am here, but the virtues of her blessed soul: her truth, her wisdom, her charity; whereby I may learn to know myself and reverently dread my God. And when our good Lord had shewed this and said this word: Wilt thou see her? I answered and said: Yea, good Lord, I thank Thee; yea, good Lord, if it be Thy will. Oftentimes I prayed this, and I weened to have seen her in
bodily presence, but I saw her not so. And Jesus in that word shewed me ghostly sight of her: right as I had seen her afore little and simple, so He shewed her then high and noble and glorious, and pleasing to Him above all creatures. And He willeth that it be known; that [so] all those that please them in Him should please them in her, and in the pleasance that He hath in her and she in Him. And, to more understanding, He shewed this example: As if a man love a creature singularly, above
all creatures, he willeth to make all creatures to love and to have pleasance in that creature that he loveth so greatly. And in this word that Jesus said: Wilt thou see her? methought it was the most pleasing word that He might have given me of her, with that ghostly Shewing that He gave me of her. For our Lord shewed me nothing in special but our Lady Saint Mary; and her He shewed three times. The first was as she was with Child; the second was as she was in her sorrows under the Cross; the
third is as she is now in pleasing, worship, and joy.
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