Dearest Goddaughter (LTR-82) - Mary, Mother of the Church

Dearest Goddaughter,

Today is the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church.  Yesterday, on #Pentecost Sunday, we celebrated the birthday of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

In today's Gospel, Jesus said to his beloved Mother: "Woman, behold, your son." And his said to the disciple whom he loved: "Behold, your mother," And when the "soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately Blood and water flowed out" and, such as God created woman out of the rib of man, Holy Mother Church is born from Blood and water that flowed from the side of her Lord and her God.

How blessed are we that Jesus gave his beloved Mother to us. Mother Mary, whose Fiat made the Incarnation possible, is our Mother who loves us as she loves her Son. Through Mary, we will always know Jesus because her life leads us to her Son, just as she told the waiters at the wedding of Cana: "Do whatever he tells you." 

As she comforted the apostles after Christ's death, she also comforts us whenever we feel alone, unloved, or lost. She suffered the trials and tribulations of daily life and yet she trusted and remained faithful to God. She can teach us this if we look to her for guidance for she is a Spiritual Mother for us all.

Love,

Bỏ Phúc

P.S. These are the readings for the day: Gn 3:9-15, 20 and Jn 19:25-34 (see below)

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Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother

            and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,

            and Mary of Magdala.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved,

            he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”

Then he said to the disciple,

            “Behold, your mother.”

And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

After this, aware that everything was now finished,

            in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled,

            Jesus said, “I thirst.”

There was a vessel filled with common wine.

So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop

            and put it up to his mouth.

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,

            “It is finished.”

And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.

Now since it was preparation day,

            in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath,

            for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one,

            the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken

            and they be taken down.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first

            and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,

            they did not break his legs,

            but one soldier thrust his lance into his side,

            and immediately Blood and water flowed out.