Blessed are the pure of heart, our Lord says when he speaks of the Beatitudes to the people.
And when he talks about his Blessed Mother, he says,
Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.
Because in reality, that is what makes our Blessed Lady so great,
is the fact that who she is and what she did as the Immaculate Conception,
the Mother of God and Corredemptrix, she did it because it was the will of God,
because God revealed his word to her.
She heard it, she embraced it, she corresponded to it, she fulfilled it.
As she said, Be it done unto me according to thy word.
That was our Lady's life, and it was why she deserved to be blessed.
And so when the woman spoke out from the crowd,
the woman who was either a mother or probably someone who wanted to be a mother,
and blessed our Lady for having born this magnificent man who was God,
having born him into the world and nurtured him
and made it possible for this woman to hear him speak and to be inspired
and to know that God was present and that his power was,
at hand, when this woman blessed our Lady,
our Lord was also inspired to bless her,
but to bless her for the highest motive possible
and therefore to encourage the crowd that stood around him.
Our Lady had the singular grace of being God's, his mother,
for being his mother, and that singled her out.
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Hearing the word of God and keeping it.
No one there could have understood in its fullness how holy she really was.
She looked like everyone else.
And her holiness, she was humble.
And our Lord singled her out in this way,
and yet at the same time,
He was encouraging everyone that was in the crowd
because no one else would ever become his mother.
No one else would ever be the one to nurture him
and give him his human nature.
But everyone there was called to be holy.
And that was the whole point of our Lord's being there.
That's the whole point that he had this crowd around him
and he was speaking to them.
It's because he was preaching to them repentance
and conversion and holiness.
That was his whole point.
So when this woman singled out his mother,
he latched onto that and he said,
yes, you're right, but for even a greater reason.
And that power to become holy is also yours.
None of us will ever be as holy as our Blessed Lady.
But when we honor her, when we praise her for her goodness,
for her divinity,
for her divine maternity and for her holiness,
we are opening ourselves up to the possibility
of becoming saints ourselves.
So on this first Saturday as we are called to make reparation
for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
which are predominantly the fact that people deny these truths.
They do not bless her.
They do not acknowledge her greatness for the fact that she's dead.
The fact that she gave Jesus his human nature.
They don't regard her holiness.
They don't see her as a way to become holy.
These are sins.
These are offenses against the majesty of God.
These are offenses against the queenship of our Blessed Lady.
And these are sins which need to be repaired.
And therefore, those who love Our Lady,
those who love the Blessed Mother,
are called on first Saturday
to make reparation.
And to do so by means of receiving Holy Communion,
offering communions of reparation
for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
And it is here where we are learning
how to receive the blessing of God.
And hopefully by our own union with our mother
at the altar rail when we receive Holy Communion,
by approaching the altar in humility
and asking our Blessed Mother to purify our hearts,
to make us humble, to make us holy,
to make us open to God's grace,
to help us receive our Lord and the Blessed Sacrament
not only worthily but fruitfully.
When we are doing this and receiving God's blessing,
hopefully through us, God blesses others as well.
Because we bring to the altar these prayers for souls.
We bring to the altar these prayers for souls.
We bring to the altar these prayers for souls.
We bring to the altar our sacrifices.
We bring to the altar the desire of Christ
and our Blessed Mother that all should be saved.
And so we make reparation.
We co-redeem in union with Our Lady.
We are instruments of God's grace for others.
We need to have a thirst for souls.
And so when our Lord blessed his mother
and when he said this blessing,
people sometimes think, well,
he was turning the attention away from our Blessed Mother,
that he really didn't think very highly of her
because the woman blessed Our Lady for her motherhood
and our Lord said, no, rather,
it's those who do the word of God
as though Our Lady didn't do the word of God.
When our Lord blessed in this way,
he was blessing his mother and blessing all of us in her,
encouraging us to become saints, encouraging us,
to turn to her, encouraging us to be like him,
who was the child of Mary, who approached her,
who entrusted himself to her
and who found what he needed in her.
And God chose that our Lord should be needy.
God chose that he should be a child.
It was his own divine will
by which he did not spurn the Virgin's womb,
but became her child.
All of us are the children of God.
All of us are the children of Mary.
We all are in need of her help
so that we might receive our Lord's blessing as well,
that we might hear the word of God and keep it
and through that find everlasting life.
Whether we are appointed also or not,
it is simply that she will be on our hospital body.
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We have already 끝났
We take good care of our children.
This is what Jesus said after his death.
Then they folded their hands at his door.
They took off their clothes.
The göstert only somewhat had them for three years to come,
but later they went on our Enjoyment.