Learn to let yourself be possessed by me, so that, in everything you do, it will be I who am doing it through you. It is so necessary now that it be the Mother who acts: and I want to act through you…
Blue Book #3c
In the marketplace of the world, we must be preachers of the Gospel with our lives as well as (when required) with words. We must be preachers without compromise. We are people called by God to give him birth in a particular Nazareth setting, namely, in the modern marketplaces of the world. We are to show him to those who dwell around us, and we do this by how we live.
Grace in Every Season (January 16)
Jesus was fully God and fully man! He has a Divine Father and a Human Mother. Most people can fully appreciate His Divine side and aspire to follow Him in uniting with His Father, but either totally ignore or denigrate His human side. But Jesus, who is God the Son, chose to be born of a human woman. This birth, and his early childhood existence was filled with meaning even if it wasn’t public. In fact it was precisely its hiddenness and normality that gave it so much value.
This great event of birthing Jesus into the world in a physical sense was specifically given to Mary. But now in turn we are to follow her lead in a spiritual sense. The world needs Jesus more than ever… and that means it needs those of us willing to ‘birth Him’ to our little corners of the world. Especially as we prepare for and approach His Second Coming. This is Mary’s time…