(statue of Mary in front of friary)
AN ADVENT MODEL OF PRAYER -- MARY!
Mary is therefore a 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.
(This reflection is from Mary in Luke's Gospel by Joseph Martos and Richard Rohr, OFM, p. 4)
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