Meditation 60
MARY IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS
Once Her intervention at Cana is over, Our Blessed Lady vanishes from the pages of the Gospel to reappear at Our Lord's tragic end, in His passion and death on the Cross. Let us however try to reconstruct Our lady's activity during the last three years of Our Lord's public life.
1. Union in Spirit with Her Son.
Above all, we cannot doubt that the life of Mary continues to be a life of most perfect union with Jesus.
Try to imagine that moment of separation, when Jesus leaves His home for His public life. How sadly but how resignedly would Our Lady have Her last repast with him. she packs his clothes. She gets His sandals ready for His long journeys. She accompanies Him for a long time on the road until Jesus tells Her to continue no further. They embrace and depart. What a bitter sorrow for Mary! How empty it is now in Nazareth! The house, the workshop, everything in the home proclaims His presence. Yet all is empty, all is silent, all is sad. Mary is not resigned to be separated from Jesus for without Him She cannot live. And so though She has let Him go and She is deprived of His physical presence, yet spiritually they are always together. Day and night wherever He may be Mary is with Him, in spirit. She thinks always of Him: what is He doing, what is He thinking, of His fatigues, His sufferings and His labors. How powerful is love! So powerful indeed that the two souls cannot even be separated by death. Is your love for Jesus of this kind? Are you like your Heavenly Mother in this compenetration with Him?
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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