The Memory of the heart - a Spirituality in itself!

THE WORD AND THE FEAST

June 12, 2021: Celebrating the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Isaiah 61: 1-11; Luke 2: 41-51

To Remember is a Spirituality in itself!

And in the normal parlance, when something has to be learnt to memory, it is termed - learning by heart! An interesting terminology...to remember is to keep something in the heart...not just the mind. The memory of the heart... it is a spirituality in itself, indeed.

Mary's heart is exalted today...
because she remembered...
she kept everything in her HEART...
Abraham, Moses, Prophets...everyone exhorted the people to remember, and presented that as the criterion to be blessed people of God. They themselves remembered, they remembered the good that the Lord had done to them... and God remembered them and blessed them without end!

Just after the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
the Church proposes that we remember the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
because a heart that resembled
the heart of Jesus.

Learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart...
Mary observed that heart from close,
infact she had her part in forming that heart...
and she herself treasured a heart that resembled that meek and humble heart of the Lord!

She kept everything in her heart! To remember the goodness of the Lord, to remember the great things done to us by the Lord, to remember the mighty presence of the Lord ever in my heart - that is the spirituality that Our Blessed Mother teaches me today!

When I remember all the good that the Lord has done to me, the hurdles and heart aches that come to me sometimes will look much smaller. All I need to do, as the responsorial psalm instructs today, is rejoice and exult in the the goodness of the Lord, because... to remember is a Spirituality in itself!