(image of Mary and the Christ Child at Assumption Abbey)
MARY AS A PRAYER MODEL
In these days between the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (patroness of the U.S.A.) and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (patroness of all the Americas), we pause to reflect upon what Mary can teach us, in the example of her life, about prayer. This quote appears in the work, "Mary in Luke's Gospel", authored by Joseph Martos and Richard Rohr, OFM.
"Mary is therefore the model of prayer for all Christians. Prayer is getting in touch with reality, letting it speak to us, and incarnating the word which comes to us. We let it happen in our lives. Saying yes to God in prayer ...means changing our lives in accordance with what we have heard. It means engaging that word with our whole being, and letting it alter our existence. For prayer is a dialogue between life and life, between divine life and human life, between the life of the Spirit and the life of the flesh. Unless we enflesh the word of God and let it become incarnate in us, it cannot become real in the world."
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