"The Almighty has done great things for me and holy is His Name!"
(c)Mary TV 2013
J.M.J.
December 9, 2013
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Patronal Feast of the USA
Dear Family of Mary!
"Tomorrow will really be a blessed day for you, if every moment is consecrated to my Immaculate Heart. Abandon yourselves to me. Strive to make your joy grow; to live in the faith, to change your hearts." (Wednesday, December 7, 1983 The vigil of the Immaculate Conception, To Jelena)
Thirty years ago, Our
Lady gave this message to Jelena for the prayer group. She wanted them
to experience the grace of her Immaculate Conception, through prayer and
constant consecration to her Immaculate Heart. She wanted to extend to
the prayer group the great joy of being immaculate, free of sin, or at
least on the way to being free of sin!
There is no better
feeling than the joy of leaving the confessional! Haven't we all
experienced it? We approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation with the
heaviness of guilt, the confusion of our own weakness, and the remorse
for our sins. It is a great relief just to tell them out to the priest.
But then to hear the incredible words of absolution and forgiveness
sends us into ecstasy! And for a little while, we are immaculate too!
Such peace, such rectitude, such joy!! This is the constant state of the
Immaculate Virgin. She is free of sin, always has been, always will be!
She knows the joy of complete rectitude with God and union with Him.
She wants us to enjoy this union as well, and to do that we need to work
at it, every moment consecrating ourselves to her.
Our Lady was conceived
without sin, by the grace of God. She was preserved from original sin
though the redemption of Jesus on the Cross. She was to be the new Eve.
She was going to be the beginning of the remaking of all creation, by
her sinless conception and her yes to becoming the mother of Jesus.
Mary's conception was the moment when God began to put all things right,
through Christ!
Now I am no scientist,
but I have been fascinated by the Big Bang Theory. It seems that right
now science has settled on this theory as a workable model of how our
universe began. Here is a simple explanation I found in National
Geographic:
Before
the big bang, scientists believe, the entire vastness of the observable
universe, including all of its matter and radiation, was compressed
into a hot, dense mass just a few millimeters across. This nearly
incomprehensible state is theorized to have existed for just a fraction
of the first second of time.
Big bang
proponents suggest that some 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, a
massive blast allowed all the universe's known matter and energy-even
space and time themselves-to spring from some ancient and unknown type
of energy.
The theory
maintains that, in the instant-a trillion-trillionth of a second-after
the big bang, the universe expanded with incomprehensible speed from its
pebble-size origin to astronomical scope. Expansion has apparently
continued, but much more slowly, over the ensuing billions of years.
Ok, the picture is that all
the matter of the universe was condensed in a tiny spot (pebble-sized), a
few millimeters across. From that little spot, everything we know now
came to be. Well, it defies imagination!!
But I was thinking about
Mary's conception. At that wonderful moment, she was contained,
condensed so to speak, into a very tiny spot as well, she was a cell.
But her conception was the beginning of a whole new universe as well,
the world free of sin that God was planning to create through Jesus's
act of Redemption and Mary's yes. She was a bit like the Big Bang in the
spiritual world!! Mary's Immaculate Conception was God's Big Bang of
Redemption!!!
I am sure you can find all
kinds of holes in this analogy, but I like it because it highlights how
incredible God is, beginning each of us at such a tiny level. Conception
is a huge miracle. And the Immaculate Conception is a really huge
miracle. Mary was the beginning of the new creation through Jesus
Christ, the creation that will endure forever and ever with God in
heaven!!! At Mary's Immaculate Conception, everything changed forever.
This is God's doing, and that is why Mary can sing the Magnificat: "The Almighty has done great things for me and Holy is His name!!"
So today we celebrate a very little beginning that led to a very Big Bang!!!
Thank you, dearest Mother,
for being our Mother and our guide. May we live today as you suggest for
we want to be part of God's Big Bang: "[Today] will really be a
blessed day for you, if every moment is consecrated to my Immaculate
Heart. Abandon yourselves to me. Strive to make your joy grow; to live
in the faith, to change your hearts."
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
PS. Tonight a new "Fruit of Medjugorje" episode will be aired at 8:00 pm. Be there!!!
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!"
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