“…when Mary said ‘yes’ to God, it was with a full understanding of what She was going to have to face. We can’t help but be in awe of Mary’s complete commitment to God even in the face of having to embrace pain and suffering.”
In this edition of A Minute with Mary, Paul reflects that though Mary was without sin, she embraced suffering according to the will of God and for her children.
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The great Marian saint, Bernard of Clairvaux, once wrote: “But perhaps someone will say, ‘Did Mary not know ahead of time that her Son was going to die?’ Yes, undoubtedly”, says St Bernard. When we reflect on this we realise that when Mary said ‘Yes’ to God, it was with a full understanding of what She was going to have to face. We can’t help but be in awe of Mary’s complete commitment to God even in the face of having to embrace pain and suffering.
Suffering is the result of original sin. When we consider that Mary was free from original and all sin and yet She still embraced suffering, in a way we could reason it was unfair Mary had to suffer. But Mary was called to imitate Her Son, so even though Jesus and Mary were sinless, they took on suffering. Why? In order to save us!
Mary was given more graces than any person, saint or even angel! She lived continually in the will of God, and suffered so much throughout Her hidden life, thereby winning even more countless graces and blessings.
What does Mary do with all this ‘accumulated wealth’? She spends it on us! – Her children! Because that’s just the way God planned it to be.
All this should make us just want to cry out in praise and thanksgiving to Jesus for all His graces and especially the gift of His very own Mother, to be our Mother too!
