562. How is Christian prayer Marian? (part 3 continuation)
(Comp 562 repetition) Because of her
singular cooperation with the action of the Holy Spirit, the Church loves to
pray to Mary and with Mary, the perfect ‘pray-er’, and to “magnify” and invoke
the Lord with her. Mary in effect shows us the “Way” who is her Son, the one
and only Mediator.
“In brief”
(CCC 2682) Because of Mary's singular cooperation with the
action of the Holy Spirit, the Church loves to pray in communion with the
Virgin Mary, to magnify with her the great things the Lord has done for her,
and to entrust supplications and praises to her.
To deepen and explain
(CCC 2677a) Holy Mary,
Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, "and why is this granted me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" (Lk 1:43). Because she
gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust
all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself:
"Let it be to me according to your word" (Lk 1:38). By entrusting
ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with
her: "Thy will be done."
Reflection
(CCC 2677b) Pray for
us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray for
us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the
"Mother of Mercy," the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to her
now, in the Today of our lives. And our trust broadens further, already at the
present moment, to surrender "the hour of our death" wholly to her
care. May she be there as she was at her son's death on the cross. May she
welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing (cf. Jn 19:27) to lead us
to her son, Jesus, in paradise. [IT
CONTINUES]
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