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      Message from Father Jack

      May 13, 2012

       

       

       

      Happy Mother’s Day!

      "The most important person on earth is a mother.  She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral.  She need not.  She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral -- a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body...  The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.  They cannot share in God's creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven.  Only a human mother can.  Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation...What on God's good earth is more glorious than this; to be a mother?"

       

      --Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty

       

      Excerpt from “The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air We Breathe” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

       

       

       

      Of her flesh he took flesh:

      He does take fresh and fresh,

      Though much the mystery how,

      Not flesh but spirit now

      And makes, O marvellous!

      New Nazareths in us,

      Where she shall yet conceive

      Him, morning, noon, and eve;

      New Bethlems, and he born

      There, evening, noon, and morn—

      Bethlem or Nazareth,

      Men here may draw like breath

      More Christ and baffle death;

      Who, born so, comes to be

      New self and nobler me

      In each one and each one

      More makes, when all is done,

      Both God’s and Mary’s Son.

       

      Glorious is the gift of motherhood of which Mary is the model. She restores what was lost to us by our first mother, Eve. She renews our life with the fruit of her womb. Through her fiat, God in all His splendor, came to dwell among us. After His death and resurrection He sent the Spirit to renew the face of the earth, to renew His beloved people. Through the Holy Spirit we are baptized into His life and inspired to come and receive Him in the Eucharist, the gift of His body and blood. As we receive Him, he resides in us as He did in Mary, and comes to life anew in our lives creating “New Nazareths, New Bethlehems.” Mary’s motherly care nurtures the life of Christ within us, gently guiding us on to reflect and reveal more and more our true likeness, the image of her Son. 

       

      Thank you Mama Mary. Thanks Mom.

       

      Fr. Jack D. Shrum


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