Happy feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary
An exerpt from a homily of St. Augustine:
The Lord was passing by and crowds were following him. His miracles gave proof of divine power, and a woman cried out: Happy is the womb that bore you, blessed is that womb! But the Lord, not wishing people to seek happiness in a purely physical relationship, replied: More blessed are those who hear the ( Read more... )
The Lord was passing by and crowds were following him. His miracles gave proof of divine power, and a woman cried out: Happy is the womb that bore you, blessed is that womb! But the Lord, not wishing people to seek happiness in a purely physical relationship, replied: More blessed are those who hear the ( Read more... )
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I love that verse from Scripture. It tells me two things: one, as you pointed out, we indeed can be like our Mother by hearing and fulfilling the word of God. And two, instead of Jesus actually in any way downplaying Mary's importance (as some Protestants like to point to this passage to do), rather it raises her importance as our perfect Christian model to a highest degree, because who fulfills this description better than she?
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