Mary is uniting us

"It was amazing that we were all gathered there because our Holy Father was departing and we loved him, but we all in that moment of sadness appealed to our Mother as well. We all were so different - we had different backgrounds, we had different languages - but we shared a Holy Father and we shared a Blessed Mother and, in praying to her, I’ve never felt so close to the Church, I've never felt so powerfully the gift of brotherhood and sisterhood within the Church by virtue of our Baptism. We're united in the Church, we're united by having a father, both in heaven and at the Vatican, but we're also united by our mother, and in her love and her 'yes' that gives us the opportunity to be courageous and to say yes to our daily crosses and our daily sacrifices. It's been very hard saying goodbye to Pope Benedict XVI, but I look to Mary to give me the strength to get through it, but more than the strength to get through it, the strength to grow through it, and to grow towards Christ and closer to my brothers and sisters in Christ."

 

~Joseph from the USA

 

Lourdes grotto at the Shrine of St. Jude, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

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