In her, we recognize the model of the Church’s faith and of our own.
We shall always look on her as our mother.
In the joys and sorrows of our missionary life, we feel close to her who is the Mother of Mercy.
OMI Rule of Life, CC&RR Constitution 10
This morning I find myself focusing on three words: “Mother of Mercy”. To give birth, to nourish, to accompany He who is all love, all compassion, all forgiveness.
Jesus did not wait until after his resurrection to mention in passing that Mary was to be our mother and we to be her sons and daughters. Dying, as the blameless scapegoat of all time Jesus is very specific in offering us his own mother to be ours, and telling her that we are her sons and daughters. It is only then that he surrendered his life and died on the cross.
This sheds an entirely stronger light on how Mary is truly the model of the Church’s faith and of our own.
I think of Fernand Jetté’s treatment of this constitution. His words and those of the constitution itself are being seen in a fuller, brighter light; not simply pious and beautiful words, but rather words trying to describe the depths of total life.
This is yet another experience of the Holy Spirit’s life in this gift passed down by the Church, by Eugene and his congregation, his family.
It is in this light that we sit and wait. We wait for the pandemic to end and see what the world will look like at the end of this new way of being and living. And in our hearts we wait for the resurrection, which has taken place and which will take place again, and again.
Such light that has come with this dawn; indescribable and unexplainable.
Maman.