Meditation 58
LIFE AT NAZARETH
1. Mary and Jesus.
We shall try to fathom the kind of relation which existed between Jesus and Mary, during the thirty years hidden life of Nazareth. It was, first of all, the relationship of mother and son. Jesus, the Son of God, was also the Son of Mary and was to Her all that a good son can be towards his mother. Mary had to do for Him all the services which a mother does for her child. And the Child Jesus, like any other, had to depend on His Mother to such an extent that the life of one was the life of the other. Mary lived all for Jesus while Jesus was wholly dependent on Mary, His Mother. What a sweet compenetration of lives between Mother and Son!
Everything in the life of Jesus had its repercussion in the heart of Mary. It would sometimes be a joy, a desire, or an anxiety, a loving caress, or an effort; or as in the case with all the earthly mothers a preoccupation to feed Him, clothe Him and rear Him. Only all in a way far more loving, more tender and devoted. none even among the children of kings and emperors had ever enjoyed such exquisite care as Jesus received from His most loving Mother.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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