MARY, OUR MOTHER

Monday, July 30, 2007

A REFLECTION FOR TODAY
'Let Them Live Out the Trust of the Present Moment' is the title of Message #38 to Fr. Gobbi.

Our Lady continues to lead and spiritually guide Fr. Gobbi so that through him, her other priest sons will also grow in their spirituality. What a great teacher She is! I know, because She has been my Mother and Teacher these many years. Right in the beginning of my conversion, On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I offered and dedicated my life to Her totally! And Our Lady has taught and guided me well! I can never thank Her enough for teaching me the Faith and bringing me to Her Son, Our Savior, Jesus Christ!

So, when we entrust ourselves to Mother Mary, She takes us by the hand, clasps us to Her Immaculate Heart, and walks by our side. We also learn that Mary has prearranged everything for us. Are we suffering, misunderstood, abandoned? Our Lady says that has been prearranged so that we may grow strong on the way of perfection. But we must learn to see Mary at our side, to feel Her presence, so to say, even in obscurity.

Yes, this is hard. I've been there, I know what its like to be abandoned and even rejected, and I know how my nature rebels against it. But the answer is to live in the present moment, and surrender completely like little babies to Mother Mary! She says, So then why are you still thinking of the past? Forget it! Why are you making plans for the future? Forget it!

So my answer is to pray each day for the grace to be able to place myself in Our Mother's arms, like a babe, to be nourished and fed by Her with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, and molded into an image of Her divine Son Jesus and Her. Could the Son not be the image of His Mother? His humanity had all Her genes, there was no human father. They must have looked like twins! May our image be like Theirs! And may we trust in the present moment!
Roman Deacon

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Quotes from 'The Glories of Mary':

‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Monday, July 30, 2007

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