WORD 2day: 28th June, 2014 Remembering the Immaculate Heart of Mary Lam 2: 2, 10-14, 18-19; Lk 2: 41-51 Following the Sacred Heart, we remember the Immaculate Heart - so fitting and meaningful a tradition! The Heart of Mary, immaculate originally by the grace of God, but manifests more than that the total dedication to God and the role God has to play in the salvation history of human kind. The heart of Mary gives us three lessons to live by. 1. The heart was pierced by sorrows as Simeon predicted. The first reading gives us a picture of the lamenting daughter of Sion and Mary is prefigured in this imagery. But no matter how much it was pierced and hurt and tortured, the heart always glowed for the love of God and the fulfillment of Gods will. 2. The heart of Mary was absolutely open to the working of the Spirit and it was at the beck and call of the Word. We see this right from the moment she heard the greeting from the angel. Openness to the Spirit is a matter of the heart and Mary exemplifies it to the utmost. 3. The heart of Our Blessed Mother was filled with God-thoughts and that was because she kept everything that was happening in her life in her heart and pondered over them. She recognised, acknowledged and accepted interventions of God in her life, and found herself being moved and animated by the Lord, the Lords Word and the Lords Spirit. Imitating Mary, let us open our hearts to God, glow for God and allow ourselves to be guided by the Lord and we will experience strongly the presence of the Lord in our hearts.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:15:22 +0000
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