Jesus, remember your mother’s immeasurable love, Mary: Day 231

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Jesus, remember your mother’s immeasurable love, Mary: Day 231 2016-02-24T12:18:19-05:00 Pete Socks

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Jesus, remember your mother’s immeasurable love

Blessed Henry Suso imagines the fond playfulness of mothers with their chil- dren, and asks, in that light, how Mary’s Son could ever possibly deny her request.

Exalted Lady of heaven and earth, arise now and be to us a mediatrix who obtains grace from your tender Child, the Eternal Wisdom. And you, Eternal Wisdom, will you deny me anything? Even as I present you before your heavenly Father, so I present your tender mother before you.

Look at her mild eyes that so often looked kindly on you. Behold those fair cheeks that she so often pressed affectionately to your infant face. Look at her sweet mouth that used to kiss you so fondly and tenderly again and again. Look at her pure hands that so often took care of you.

O goodness above all goodness! How can you deny anything to her who nursed you so affectionately and carried you in her arms; who laid you to rest, awakened you, and tenderly reared you? O Lord, let me remind you of all the love you ever experienced from her in the days of your childhood, when you sat in her motherly lap, and with playful eyes laughed so pleasantly and tenderly in her face, with the immeasurable love you had for her above all creatures!

Think, too, of the heart-rending woe that her maternal heart endured with you under the beam of your miserable cross, where she saw you in the agony of death, and when her heart and soul so many times died in sorrow and distress with you. Lord, I beg you, for her sake, grant me every means of shaking off my sins, of acquiring your grace, and never losing it again. —Blessed Henry Suso, Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
When I think of the tender moments between mother and child that every family can recall, I can imagine Mary and Jesus enjoying many such moments, with a mutual love beyond all telling. With that bond between them, what must be the Son’s reply when the mother asks a favor on my behalf ?

CLOSING PRAYER
From a prayer of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: We raise our eyes to you, Queen of
the World. We must appear before our Judge after so many sins; who will appease him? No one can do it better than you can, holy Lady, who has loved him so much, and by whom you are so tenderly beloved.

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