In the Blue book #152 n. We read.
It will be I myself, living in these littlest children of mine, who will bring to completion the work, which the Most Holy Trinity has entrusted to me, that its greatest glory may shine forth over the world.
So we are told here that Our Mother’s job, as entrusted to her by the Holy Trinity… Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is that God’s glory may shine forth over the world. It’s not her own glory, it’s God’s glory.
Some people, of the non Catholic persuasion, may get flustered when they read that she’s wanting to live in us. Let me tell you something… anything and anyone that you give your self to, now lives within you to a certain degree.
This is most vividly seen in this earthly realm in the sacrament of marriage, we ‘consecrate ourselves’ to each other, and are told that the two shall become one. Well, when we consecrate ourselves to Our Blessed Mother, that too is a marriage of sorts… the two becoming one.
So now this mission of hers, to reveal God’s glory, so that it may shine over the entire world, now becomes our work too.
But what is God’s glory actually? What is this job that we’ve been assigned?
Well, St. Irenaous, I think said it best. “The glory of God is man fully alive.”
Fully alive in holiness…loving and serving Him here and now, and living with Him forever in Heaven!
Blue Book sec. c-e
The love of the Father and the Son has been given you by them that you may fulfill here below the plan which God, in His eternal wisdom, has already determined for you.
That’s the plan… you don’t need to be rich, powerful, or incredibly eloquent, or have a huge following on social media. It’s not what you do, but how you do it.
In today’s Gospel we read
While Jesus was speaking,
a woman from the crowd called out and said to him,
“Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.”
He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
Again, many want to take this passage and twist it into something that it’s not. Jesus is NOT dissing His Mother… He kept all the commandments, including honoring His parents. He’s actually bestowing a great honor on her, telling us that her blessedness comes from her obedience to the Father… her ‘Fiat’… her great YES.
Psalm 57: 9-11
I will thank you, Lord, among all the people.
I will sing your praises among the nations.
For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens.
May your glory shine over all the earth.