Friends,
on this feast of Mary the mother of God, I would like to emphasize
specially the word today’s Gospel associates with her: treasured. "Mary
treasured these things and reflected on them in her heart." She pondered
them, turned them over, sought out their causes, saw their
implications, allowed them to work their way into the marrow of her
bones.
Bl.
John Henry Newman said that this treasuring quality of Mary makes her
the patroness of
theology. He furthermore observed that theology is one of the marks of a
healthy Catholicism. Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Dante, Teresa of
Avila, John of the Cross, Newman himself, and John Paul II are all
Marian figures in this sense.
So when you know your mission, be astonished by what God has done, and never stop treasuring it.
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