Wednesday, 21 August 2013

SHE BELIEVE IN THE PROMISE

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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