And for all of the love that Mary receives from the church — and she receives an awful lot of love — me thinks that her own desire is most of all that we grow in our love for her Son.
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Do we, like Mary’s ‘fiat!’, say yes to God’s grace and blessings?
For after all, Paul tells us quite clearly that we, too, have been filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
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At first sight, Zacchaeus truly saw! Do we see?
Was Jesus really that good at seeing goodness, at seeing what nobody else could see?
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We rejoice in his complete openness through marital and parental near-catastrophes and rejoice in Joseph’s faithful response to God.
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She is us
We esteem and honor Mary for the singular privilege given to her by the call to bring God in the person of Jesus into the world in the Feast of the Incarnation — Christmas!
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A burning love for souls
Jesus lived with a burning desire for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. We see his compassion, his excitement to share God’s love, on every page of the Gospels.
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