Ave Maria Meditations
Everything begins with a conversation between the Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel: “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” (Lk 1:34). Answer: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you: the Child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.” (Lk 1:35). At the same time as physical motherhood, Mary’s spiritual motherhood began, a motherhood which filled the nine months of waiting, but which was prolonged also beyond the moment of the birth of Jesus to embrace the thirty years spent between Bethlehem, Egypt, and Nazareth, and then also the years of Jesus in His public life, when the Son of Mary left His home in Nazareth to preach the gospel of the kingdom: years which culminated on Calvary in the supreme sacrifice on the cross
Dear brothers and sisters! Receive Christ from the hands of Mary! May the mystery of the redemption reach you through her soul! May all the salvific plans of consecrated hearts always be manifest before the heart of the mother! Unite with her with your glance focused on her. In her there is a special resemblance to Christ, the Spouse of your souls.
Saint John Paul II from his Book of Mary
