Without Mary, the Church risks becoming "dehumanized"

The Beatitudes and the lifestyle of the faithful and of the Church: this was the concluding reflection delivered by Father Tolentino on Friday, February 23, 2018, who gave the Pope’s and the Roman Curia’s Lenten Spiritual Exercises at Casa ‘Gesù Divin Maestro’ (the Divine Master House) in the town of Ariccia near Rome.

This meditation followed the thread of the Sermon on the Mount and the teaching of the Beatitudes. The preacher evoked the "beatitude of thirst" and the "beatitude of Mary."

Father José Tolentino sees the Church in "Marian style": Mary who is "hospitable," who listens and who is open to life; Mary who is "honest" with regard to God; who “serves" a bigger project. Without Mary, he concludes, the Church risks "becoming dehumanized, functionalist, like a hyperactive factory incapable of taking a break."

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