+(Intro) This morning we have again the memorial or Our Lady! More than ever in our world today we need her loving intercession, especially with the wars going on, and for the Synod underway in Rome. Let us then be aware of our sins and failings, of our need for God’s continual grace.
(After the gospel) The words of Jesus, rejoicing in the Holy Spirit, praising the Father that although he has “hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike” seem especially related to Mary. Her giving birth to the only Son of the Father must have overwhelmed her with a sense of the graciousness of God.
Mary’s life was a hidden one but certainly filled with divine love for she conceived in her womb God’s only begotten Son by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. It was this that made the early Cistercians so devoted to Mary, for what could make us more true to our calling than her hidden life wholly given to God. How blessed were those eyes that saw what she saw. The one who was so long awaited, she held in her lap, nursed at her breasts, taught the basics of human life. May her loving intercession be ever more felt in our world of today.
Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17; Luke 10:17-24