Advent March: Twenty Three Days Until Christmas
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“He was created of a mother whom He created
He was carried by hands that He formed.
He cried in the manger in wordless infancy.
He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.” Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine is just like a man.
Jesus did not cry in the manger. The bond of pure love between Mary and the Son of God, Jesus Christ is perfect Love.
Christ’s infancy is complimented by the Virgin Mother, Mary’s care, by the Virgin Mother Mary’s perfect care, guided by the Holy Spirit.
Six days until the celebration of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. This meditation is for Mary.
Saved from original sin and the consequences of indifference to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary sought to do God’s will for all eternity. The Blessed Virgin Mary became the Immaculate Conception as she found favor with God for her selflessness and her will to do His will.
The created soul of Blessed Mary is for all time united with the Holy Trinity in perpetual love.
Jesus Christ crucified gave Blessed Mary every person in the human race for whom He died. Christ then gave His Mother into the keeping of Saint John, the Evangelist, Bishop, who took the Blessed Virgin Mary into his heart, his home and his Church.
All men therefore have implicit possession of Catholicism through the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Motherhood of the Catholic Church.