Une Minute avec Marie
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Mary brings us to Jesus. Mary also brings us back to him. She is the one we need to live and put into practice what we have discovered in the living presence of Jesus. It is Mary, our Mother, who will bring us to glory. It is she who leads us to enter into the mystery of Pentecost.
On Pentecost, Mary is waiting: as on the Annunciation, and as on the day of the Resurrection, she is waiting in hope. But at Pentecost, she is no longer alone in waiting: she waits with the apostles gathered around her. Mary attracts the manifestation of God on Earth. But she is also no longer alone in receiving the manifestation of the Spirit. Her ardent prayer draws the living Spirit upon the apostles, those whom Jesus has chosen to found his Church.
The new covenant is more fully realized here than at the Nativity. "I will send you the Spirit." Jesus has returned to the heart of the Father, and from their eternal embrace flows the power of the Spirit. It is the living Spirit, who springs from the Father and the Son, and who has no other desire or mission than to embrace all men in his incomparable and violent love.
The strength of the Spirit will never fail those who, with Mary, will work in the Church and for the Church in the future.