12.31.13

                

Lectio:   Lk 2.16-21                                                                    

Meditatio: “And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.”Lk 2.19
                  
Oratio: O God, You revealed to the shepherds through Your angels the identity of Jesus and in turn the identity that Mary was His Mother.

I remember Luke recorded for us the angels appearance to the shepherds and announced the Good News that a Savior was born who is the Messiah and Lord and they found it to be so.

Grant that I may always revere Mary as the Mother of God for that is what she is and also revere her as my Mother for that is what she is through grace.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "Mary...things...reflecting”; Mary kept the things that happened at the time of her Son’s birth and reflected on them just at the early Church did; and the Church found that Mary was truly the Mother of God, the Thetokos.; in prayer thank God for the great gift of Mary as our Mother, too, one to whom we can always have recourse with great confidence now and at the hour of our death and ask and accept the grace to live as her children.
   
Tomorrow's reading: Jn 1.19-28