MARY IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS
2. Cooperation in His Messianic Work.
All Her life Mary actively cooperated with the mission of Jesus. Whilst He was preaching, toiling, or journeying, Mary was praying and suffering. Her prayers and sacrifices achieving many conversions among those listening to Jesus. If, thanks to Her intervention, water was changed into wine, would not also the miracle of conversions be brought about also through Her?
It is true that Jesus was not in need of His Mother's prayers to make His preaching fruitful, but He wanted Her to be associated in His work to teach us that the active life must always be accompanied by the contemplative; that much of the fruit reaped by preachers is not so much the result of their words as that of the prayers of many hidden souls, known only to God. Love this beautiful apostolate of prayer. You may not be able to preach or do wonderful things. You may not be able to perform miracles, but like Mary you will always be able to mortify yourself in silence, in prayer, to sacrifice yourself for souls. One day you will learn the result of this magnificent apostolate. Let Mary even in this be your model. Truly She, in this sphere also, can be called the Queen of the Apostles.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
2. Cooperation in His Messianic Work.
All Her life Mary actively cooperated with the mission of Jesus. Whilst He was preaching, toiling, or journeying, Mary was praying and suffering. Her prayers and sacrifices achieving many conversions among those listening to Jesus. If, thanks to Her intervention, water was changed into wine, would not also the miracle of conversions be brought about also through Her?
It is true that Jesus was not in need of His Mother's prayers to make His preaching fruitful, but He wanted Her to be associated in His work to teach us that the active life must always be accompanied by the contemplative; that much of the fruit reaped by preachers is not so much the result of their words as that of the prayers of many hidden souls, known only to God. Love this beautiful apostolate of prayer. You may not be able to preach or do wonderful things. You may not be able to perform miracles, but like Mary you will always be able to mortify yourself in silence, in prayer, to sacrifice yourself for souls. One day you will learn the result of this magnificent apostolate. Let Mary even in this be your model. Truly She, in this sphere also, can be called the Queen of the Apostles.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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