Fragrance of God’s Grace, Mama
Fragrance of God’s Grace, Mama
Entrusting My Words to the Holy Spirit
Linda Mary Liotino
With the fall of man to sin, the Garden of Eden lost its beauty and the original order God wanted. His plan was a place for man and beast to live in perfect peace and harmony. It was to be a place where God himself could walk and commune with man. The fall of Adam to sin in the Garden of Eden brought the destruction of the Garden because peace, harmony, and the place where God commune with man forever gone because of sin. Not all that God wanted in the Garden of Eden and His relationship with man could survive once sin entered into the Garden. However, God being God gave us another Garden His Mother.
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. In 1854 Pius IX gave the infallible statement: The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. [American Catholic.org]
Mary’s freedom from all sin is the most beautiful fruit of the work of redemption accomplished by her Son. Chosen as Mother of the Savior, Mary received the benefits of salvation from the moment of her conception. Christ came to take away the sin of the world; he did not allow that sin to contaminate Mary. In her sanctity, our Blessed Mother is a model for all Christians. We should seek her intercession in our own struggles with sin. Mary is the patroness of the
Mama pick by Papa God, overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and carry within her womb the son of God Jesus stands to reason she is free of any stain of sin for God cannot abide where sin resides. She a creature of God was free [by the will of God] from sin thus immaculately conceived. Nothing is impossible with God.
Therefore, each of us has the beauty and fragrance of the first Garden where the beauty of God’s creation is and where God resides within our Mama. She has not only the ear of her Son our Beloved Lord but also He readily listens to her and denies her nothing. Therefore, her being our advocate allows us to go to the front of the line. Our Beloved Lord sees His spotless Mother, as we peer from behind her mantel.
Let our prayer be for today and everyday dear Mama obtain for us the grace to fight pride, jealousy, insecurity, sexual sin, compromise, unforgiveness, slothfulness, discouragement, covetousness, and fear. Mama as we avoid sin may we imitate your virtues of deep humility, lively faith, ready obedience, continuous prayer, universal mortification, Divine purity, ardent charity, heroic patience, angelic sweetness and heavenly wisdom. [virtues by St. Louis de Montfort]
I end with this last thought: Luke 1:28
And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”
May the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Bless you.
DEDICATED: To you my Beloved Mama…I love you so very dearly.