Our Lady of Expectation by Fr. Marian Zalecki, OSPPE
Some years back I supervised a field education student in a campus ministry setting. Chris was pregnant when she ended her assignment with us and at our last meeting she brought me some flowers. A card with the flowers thanked me for my work with her and promised that she would "carry me with her..."
I remember being very moved to know that someone who was carrying new life within her would, somehow, carry me, too. The experience of bearing new life into the world is something that a woman understands from a unique perspective: love takes flesh in her body and new life is created...
What a gift and predisposition for preaching and teaching and living the Incarnation belongs to women...
In these last days of Advent we might ponder Mary musing on the new life stirring in her womb. Certainly she shared some of Joseph's anxiety. Certainly she pondered the mystery of an angel's visit and the message delivered. Certainly she carried many thoughts with her as she carried her child in her womb. Perhaps this is why, since ancient times, Christians have continued to ask her to carry their prayers to her son...
As Advent 2010 comes to a close, what thoughts and prayers, worries and concerns, joys and hopes might you ask Mary to carry to her son?
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Beautiful - and as always, Mary leads us to her Son. The model of perfect humility, perfect surrender, and perfect faith.
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