Mary is not only a model and an anticipation
of our own vocation and destiny. Mary is
perennially and actively at the center of what Pope Francis has recently called
“the revolution of tenderness", as its maternal agent. Because of the irreversible structure God
expressly gave to the work of Redemption, Mary remains the perpetual Mother of
Grace. The dynamic favor Mary received
as Mother of God continues operating fruitfully throughout history because from
the outset it was a grace for others.
Mary is saved only insofar as she is
mother. In her we behold, in utter amazement,
how the act of the will of one creature vitally, essentially affects the
eternal destiny of all other creatures, not only in the “then” of history but
especially in the “now” of our lives.
We rejoice in the love and protection of the Virgin at Guadalupe, our Mother and Protector.
Reflection by Father Simeon.
