
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
“The thing that set Mary apart is that she believed what God told her, and she said yes.”
“The thing that set Mary apart is that she believed what God told her, and she said yes.”
“I set aside my wisdom and my intellect to rest in the newness of a fresh beginning, a brand new moment with God.”
“…our refusal to forgive ourselves does paralyze us. The more we embroil ourselves in self-recrimination, the less we are able to create and to love.”
“We are truly immortal beings, wed in our very essence to the living God, who is love. And so it is only through loving – constantly, extravagantly, and unexpectedly – that we express our true natures.”
“Jesus is calling us into the truth of oneness, the realm of God’s love. We truly are all one.”
“We have to be willing to look at things from the other person’s point of view, and we have to be willing to stretch into reconciliation even in those instances when we don’t think we did anything wrong.”
“I ruminate on soul-snagging. How might I cooperate with the Holy Spirit in her use of me?”
“Here is the heart of Christian teaching, its very essence. “Love one another as I have loved you.”
Jesus builds it of the elements of the table fellowship of the Passover Feast. He takes two and transforms them, constructing a shell infused with his very being. “This is my body,” he says, passing around a loaf of bread he has blessed. Then he passes them a cup of wine, and all of them drink from it. “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he tells his followers.