Spotorno, July 24, 1973
“Are you pleased with the house I have prepared for you? You never dreamed that it would be so beautiful: beneath a cliff, with your room practically in a cleft of the rock; overlooking the sea, and the little Chapel where Jesus abides nearby: the Son at the side of my dearest son.
You had no idea of this, yet for a great while I had been preparing it for you. When you were working for Me, enduring the heat and the fatigue, you would say: ‘How happy I am to have spent the whole evening working for Our Lady’; and at that same time I was thinking of you and preparing a place for your days of rest, and I have brought you to this place which is so dear to Me.
There is also X who loves Me so dearly; and there are the little children for whom I have special love: and you are to be, for my sake, just one of them.
Learn to see Me always and at every moment as She who is truly for all a Mother, only and always a Mother!”
During these trying times, when so many of us are feeling alienated from our places of worship due to one reason or another, Mary is there to guide us. Ask her where you are to go and listen to her. She prepares the way but you will need to move your feet. The stepping is up to you.
Paragraph 6. Mary – Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church 963 Since the Virgin Mary’s role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church. “The Virgin Mary . . . is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and of the redeemer. . . . She is ‘clearly the mother of the members of Christ’ . . . since she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of believers in the Church, who are members of its head.”502 “Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church.”503
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Also do not forget that your own home is also to be a place of holiness, a domestic church.
Mary as the Mother of Jesus, is then the mother of His Body on earth…the church…wherever that may be.
VI. THE DOMESTIC CHURCH
It is here that the father of the family, the mother, children, and all members of the family exercise the priesthood of the baptized in a privileged way “by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, and self-denial and active charity.”170 Thus the home is the first school of Christian life and “a school for human enrichment.”171 Here one learns endurance and the joy of work, fraternal love, generous – even repeated – forgiveness, and above all divine worship in prayer and the offering of one’s life.
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