2020 12 08 An Absence As Original Sin, Immaculate Conception Of BVM, School - Kostenloses Hörbuch

“John, behold your mother.” And the Church believes that when Jesus said that he was really giving Mary to all of us, because John was his beloved disciple and therefore an image of the whole Church.

Our true self is really the same self that is united to Christ, united to God, living in communion of mind and heart and body.

Christ’s way of life as our way of life. That means the best way to be human, the fullest way to be human.

We give God our free will. God doesn’t take it from us; we have to give it. Mary did. She was always letting God be her God.

That is a temptation we all have, to be centered on self. The problem is the self we are centered on isn’t really true self. That’s what Mary seemingly grasped at the beginning. And Mary can help us attain that.