August being richly blessed with two Feast Days to honor our Blessed Mother Mary as in - today 15th, The Assumption of our Blessed Mother next Friday 22nd, The Queenship of our Blessed Mother i wish to share Pope Francis’ reflections and i quote: Our Lady guards our health. What does this mean?… She helps us grow, to confront life, to be free. A mother helps her children grow up and wants them to grow strong. That is why she teaches them not to be lazy, … which can also derive from a certain kind of well being … not to sink into a comfortable lifestyle, contenting oneself with possessions. The mother takes care that her children develop better, that they grow strong, capable of accepting responsibilities, of engaging in life, of striving for great ideals. Our Lady … helps us to grow as human beings and in the faith, to be strong and not to fall into the temptation of being human beings and Christians in a superficial way, but to live responsibly, to strive even higher. A mother then thinks of the health of her children, teaching them also to face the difficulties of life . . . The mother helps her children to see the problems of life realistically and not to get lost in them, but to confront them with courage not to be weak, and to know how to overcome them in a healthy balance that a mother “senses” between the area of security and the area of risk … Like a good mother Mary is close to us, so that we may never lose courage before the adversities of life before our weakness, before our sins: she gives us strength, she shows us path to her Son . . . The Lord entrusts us to the loving and tender hands of the Mother that we might feel her support in facing and overcoming the difficulties of our human and Christian journey; to never be afraid of the struggle, to face it with the help of the Mother. Lastly … a good mother also helps (her children) to make definitive decisions with freedom … Mary as a good mother teaches us to be, like her, capable of making definitive decisions; definitive choices, at this moment in a time controlled by, so to speak, a philosophy of the provisional. It is very difficult to make lifetime commitment. And she helps us make those definitive decisions in the full freedom with which she said “Yes” to the plan God had for her life. - by Pope Francis May 4, 2013 Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:52:42 +0000
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