THE WORD AND THE FEAST
June 17, 2023: Feast of Immaculate Heart of Mary2 Corinthians 5: 14-21 (or) Isaiah 61: 9-11; Luke 2: 41-51.
To Remember is a Spirituality in itself!
Mary's heart is exalted today...
because she remembered...
she kept everything in her HEART...
Abraham, Moses, the Prophets... all of them were blessed because they remembered, they remembered the good that the Lord had done to them... they helped others remember it too. And God remembered them and blessed them more!
Just after the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
the Church proposes that we remember the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
because it was 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 our hearts - that is the spirituality that Our Blessed Mother teaches us today!
When we 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 Gospel says about our Blessed Mother,
is to keep everything in our hearts and contemplate on them, to remember the goodness of the Lord, because, to remember is a Spirituality in itself!