help us to say yes like you! The Pope exhorts us:
Mary said her “yes” to God: a “yes” which threw her simple life in
Nazareth into turmoil, and not only once. Any number of times she had to
utter a heartfelt “yes” at moments of joy and sorrow, culminating in
the “yes” she spoke at the foot of the Cross. Here today there are many
mothers present; think of the full extent of Mary’s faithfulness to God:
seeing her only Son hanging on the Cross. The faithful woman, still
standing, utterly heartbroken, yet faithful and strong.
And I ask
myself: am I a Christian by fits and starts, or am I a Christian
full-time? Our culture of the ephemeral, the relative, also takes its
toll on the way we live our faith. God asks us to be faithful to him,
daily, in our everyday life. He goes on to say that, even if we are
sometimes unfaithful to him, he remains faithful. In his mercy, he never
tires of stretching out his hand to lift us up, to encourage us to
continue our journey, to come back and tell him of our weakness, so that
he can grant us his strength. This is the real journey: to walk with
the Lord always, even at moments of weakness, even in our sins. Never to
prefer a makeshift path of our own. That kills us. Faith is ultimate
fidelity, like that of Mary.
from news.va
10/13/2013
Our Lady of Fatima
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