Serving the Word: 8th December

FRIDAY 8th DECEMBER 2023

Luke 1, 26-38

Mary answered, “Here is the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your word”.

Good Father, today, feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, everything invites us to give thanks for what you have done in Mary and what you want to do in us, moved by your infinite love.

We thank you because we can turn to Mary as a mother and as a model of faith. As a person capable of accepting your word and ready to live it with all her heart.

Thank you that Mary brought Jesus into the world and made him known to us, that she invited us to obey him and that she was the first disciple. Like her, may we know how to be attentive to welcome your plans at all times. May we not be afraid to adhere to them wholeheartedly nor say that today it is impossible to follow the Gospel of Jesus as Mary did.

Help us, above all, never to see as normal and never to make a pact with the evil and sin that we find in the world and within ourselves.

May we not make a pact with selfishness and violence.

May we not be indifferent when human rights are violated and people are enslaved.

May we not be indifferent when we are invited to live without faith. Deliver us from saying “this has always happened” and that “it is impossible to improve the world”.

May we have the courage to believe and to put our faith into practice. Like Mary Immaculate, may we have prepared the way to receive more fully the grace that Jesus brings us.

Good day to you.

Antonio Sanjuan Cmf

 

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