Tuesday August 15, 2023

Luke 11:27-28

As Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Happy the womb that bore you…

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. After her journey on earth Mary entered the company of angels. I grew up during a time when the devotion to Mary was celebrated loudly in the church. I am so grateful that at an early age I learned how to pray the rosary and it became for me a powerful prayer. My mother would ask us to pray the Rosary and many a time I saw mama praying it. This was a strong unspoken message to me and for me to always remember the blessed Virgin Mary.

Do you think Jesus had a complicated relationship with his mother? The scriptures sometimes kinda hint at that. Remember his words “my mother and siblings are those who hear the word of God… today he says in response to the woman who blesses his mother “Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!.” And yet these two were inseparable. At the cross stood his mother. She had walked with him the whole way and yes sometimes she did not “get” him. This is very normal. We have a very complicated relationship with our mothers. I have said before that if God loves me more than my mother does, He must love me A LOT.

So on this feast I ask of you to say your rosary and ask our mother how we can properly love our Lord.