Une Minute avec Marie
Faire connaître et aimer Marie
God offers us the Virgin Mary in the same way that He chose her for Himself; He entrusts us to her as He entrusted Himself to her.
Thus her place in our life is neither imagination, nor feelings, but our faith in the fact that the Lord was “conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.”
More than anyone else, Mary was a disciple of her son. Her life was entirely given to bringing forth the Word of God.
She was conceived of the Redemption, and lived her life at the service of the Redemption. Then, at the end of her time on earth, she was taken body and soul into the Heavenly Kingdom.
She is both hidden within God and offered to all of us. Mary is near us in the glory of her Assumption. She is forever the one in whom the Holy Spirit has fashioned the image of the Mystical Body, the Church, that we constantly become.
Let us not reduce Mary to a saint we should call on now and again. The maternal love of the Virgin Mary is ever present. In God, we are forever her children. Let us receive her in faith, as St John received her from Jesus on the Cross. Let us invite Mary into our lives, not just in our thoughts or in our spirituality, but in our Creed: with the whole Church let us profess Christ “conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.”