MARY, OUR MOTHER

"Faithful though disinherited."
Sir Winston Churchill

DESDICHADO

* This is the Heir; come let us kill Him. [Matt. 21:38]

* Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved? [Song of songs 8:5]

CHRIST walks the world again, His lute upon His back,
His red robe rent to tatters, His riches gone to rack,
The wind that wakes the morning blows His hair about His face,
His hands and feet are ragged with the ragged briar's embrace,
For the hunt is up behind Him and His sword is at His side, . . .
Christ the bonny outlaw walks the whole world wide,

Singing: "Lady, lady, will you come away with Me,
Lie among the bracken and break the barley bread?
We will see new suns arise in golden, far-off skies,
For the Son of God and Woman hath not where to lay His head."

Christ walks the world again, a prince of fairy-tale,
He roams, a rascal fiddler, over mountain and down dale,
Cast forth to seek His fortune in a bitter world and grim,
For the stepsons of His Father's house would steal His Bride from Him;
They have weirded Him to wander till He bring within His hands
The water of eternal youth from black-enchanted lands,

Singing: "Lady, lady, will you come away with Me,
Or sleep on silken cushions in the bower of wicked men?
For if we walk together through the wet and windy weather,
When I ride back home triumphant you will ride beside Me then."

Christ walks the world again, new-bound on high emprise,
With music in His golden mouth and laughter in His eyes;
The primrose springs before Him as He treads the dusty way,
His singer's crown of thorn has burst in blossom like the may,
He heedeth not the morrow and He never looks behind,
Singing: "Glory to the open skies and peace to all mankind."

Singing: "Lady, lady, will you come away with Me?
Was never man lived longer for the hoarding of his breath;
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain . . .
If we perish in the seeking, . . . why, how small a thing is death!"

[By Dorothy Sayers, Public Domain.]

Yes, in these trying days we must be one with Christ and the Woman standing at the foot of the Cross, Mother Mary! The world hates us Christ followers but we are not afraid! We will continue to proclaim Jesus as our Risen Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary as our Mother!

A great man once said:
What is the use of living
if it be not to strive for noble causes
and to make this muddled world a better place
for those who will live in it after we are gone? Winston Churchill
Dundee, October 9th, 1908.

He took as his motto 'Desdichado', a Spanish word which means 'Faithful though disinherited.'

Christ was disinherited by His own people, but was faithful to His Father. He gave up His life so that we could be the heirs of a better world, a world where the Father's Kingdom would reign. We pray for this every day in the Lord's Prayer: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done; on earth, as it is in Heaven."

As we await the coming of the Father's Kingdom, we lean on our Beloved Jesus & Mary, consecrating our hearts and our lives to Theirs and we suffer persecution, abandoment, rejection, even death! But we are only following in the steps of Jesus & Mary, so hopefully our lives will make this world a better place to live in for those who come after us.

In today's Gospel reading for the 17th Sunday, Christ proclaims: "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life, will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the Gospel will save it." [Mark 8:35] Could it be any clearer for us?

Pope Benedict XVI, on his recent trip to Germany said: "I am convinced, in faith, that in Christ, in his word, we find the way not only to eternal happiness, but also to the building of a humane future even now, here below. Impelled by this conviction, the Church, led by the Spirit, has constantly looked to the Word of God so as to be able to respond to new historical challenges."


Let us pray: "Come, Lord Jesus, Word of God!" Return soon, Lord, to establish Your Father's Kingdom and reign in the hearts of all humankind!
Come Holy Spirit! Come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well-beloved Spouse!
May it be so! Amen!