Springs for The Source, Steps to The Summit: Immaculate Heart of Mary

Friday, June 23, 2006

Immaculate Heart of Mary

The memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary gives way this year to the Solemnity of Saint John the Baptist.

And yet on this Saturday, what keeps us from honoring the heart of our Mother, so closely united to the heart of the Son, whose heart was formed from her virgin flesh and humanly nurtured by her maternal love and care. Saint Augustine says that before Mary bore Jesus in her womb, she bore him first in her heart.

Let us ask Our Lady that she may form us after the Heart of her Son, so that we who bear him in our flesh in the Eucharist, may bear him also in our hearts. Let us ask Our Lord that we may have a heart like Our Lady: always treasuring God's words, bearing the sword of sorrow with faith and hope, rejoicing in God with great love and confidence!

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: Name: Leo Martin Angelo R. Ocampo; Location: Manila, Philippines

Leo is a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Manila in San Jose Major Seminary. He is currently in his second year of theological studies at the Loyola School of Theology in the Ateneo de Manila University. Every weekend, he is involved in parish apostolate at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Makati City. He is also a Center Moderator for the Ateneo Catechetical Instruction League.

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Nevertheless the liturgy is the SUMMIT toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the SOURCE from which all her power flows. For the aim and object of apostolic works is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord's supper. The liturgy in its turn moves the faithful, filled with "the paschal sacraments," to be "one in holiness"; it prays that "they may hold fast in their lives to what they have grasped by their faith"; the renewal in the eucharist of the covenant between the Lord and man draws the faithful into the compelling love of Christ and sets them on fire. From the liturgy, therefore, and especially from the eucharist, as from a font, grace is poured forth upon us; and the sanctification of men in Christ and the glorification of God, to which all other activities of the Church are directed as toward their end, is achieved in the most efficacious possible way. (SC, 10)

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Friday, June 23, 2006

Immaculate Heart of Mary

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