Jesus wants to look at us as he looked at Mary, and He wants to be looked at by each of us as Mary looked at Him. He came to earth for that purpose, so that by His looking at us and by our looking at Him, our hearts might be carried away to the heights of invisible things...The first look of Jesus had something transitory about it as if subject to time, but it also had something immutable and permanent, divine and eternal. Out of the centuries there comes to each person of goodwill the unspeakable delight of the first look of Jesus without the fading of its freshness, the lessening of its ardor, or the loss of divine clarity.
Lines by Luis M. Martinez.
