PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday 22 August 2013
SHE BELIEVE IN THE PROMISE
Pause. Be still
in the presence of God.
Reading. “Yes,
blessed is she who believed that the promise made to her by the Lot5d would be
fulfilled.” (Luke 1:39-47)
Reflection. Ever
since the Church found herself able to say formally that Mary was the “Mother
of God”, in Ephesus (today SW Turkey) in 431, and so she took 400 years to do
it, she, the Church, has welcomed ways -
in music, art and liturgy – of honouring Mary. Five years ago I visited the ruined
site of the Council of Ephesus and our group of pilgrims celebrated the
Eucharist tere, thanks to the leniency of our Muslim guide who bent the rules
and kept calling her “Mother Mary.” That title, mother, so familiar to us in
our own families, points to the power of her leap of faith when she uttered
that little word “yes” to God’s plan for his people. The Church has scrambled
to find other fitting titles, adding “Queen” and “Glory of our race” and a
whole litany of praises. One comes from Southern German and is immensely
popular in Argentina, the pope’s
country: “She who unties knots.”
Prayer. Lord, we
honour your mother, Mary, today as queen and mother; the one who untied the
knot in which our race was bound, Help us to grow in that faith she showed.
Help me to say “yes” to the challenges I face today Amen
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