And a month for all mother's. This month we celebrate Mary as a newly pregnant
mother. She has just agreed to be the
mother of our Savior and has learned of her elderly cousin's pregnancy and is
hurrying to visit Elizabeth. This is the
Feast of Visitation.
This
is also the month of another Visitation, the 150th anniversary of the
visitation of our mother to three poor children in Fatima. As with all her many visitations, Mary pleads
for our prayers and repentance. She
warns us of the horrors to come if mankind does not repent. And, like the ancient Israelites we don't repent. And the horrors come and come again.
God
must wonder what else He can possibly do for us, his wandering children, to
bring us back to Himself. He gives us
many rewards, a beautiful garden, and only one rule, only one don't. And we do.
He tests us and we test him back.
Each time we fail the test, each time He passes the test. He gives the consequences he promises, and
the love He said He would never take away remains. We ask on bended knee and He forgives us.
Goodness
comes again. If famine strikes the land,
He gives us an escape route, Egypt. When
we forget Him, we become slaves to our sin.
When we cry out to Him he sends us Moses. When we wander in the desert without food or
water, he sends us quail and manna. When
Moses dies, he sends Joshua. Later he
sends the Prophets, then the Kings, and when we are so very evil, he sends us
into captivity only to rescue us again.
Finally
under Roman rule, when we have perverted the Law into pieces so minute no one
could obey them all, He send his Son to teach us and to give us a simple Law of
Love. Do we change, well maybe a few,
there were always a few who really believed.
His Son and his message were crucified.
On the cross He left us His mother.
Who can't love a mother?
So
yes, most of us love Mary, though some think she is just another mother and
wonderful but not someone to pray to when we need help. So He sends her in various centuries, in
various places, with the same messages.
Repent. Pray for
Conversions. Pray the Rosary.
No
matter how miraculous, unusual, mysterious, or unexplainable the manner of the message,
over time it remains the same. The manner is like the bells at Holy
Eucharist, an attempt to draw our attention, "please listen, this is
important. Your very future is at
stake!" And yet, do we listen, do
we even hear the bells anymore? Is it
all just so much smoke and mirrors? NO!
GOD
IS CALLING US TO HIMSELF. REPENT AND
PRAY!