DEC. 7: MARY, OUR TEACHER IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Day 8 of the Novena to the Immaculate Conception
SPIRITUAL CONSIDERATION
We can’t forget that Mary spent nearly every day of her life just like millions of other women who look after their family, bring up their children and take care of the house. Mary sanctifies the ordinary everyday things – what some people wrongly regard as unimportant and insignificant: everyday work, looking after those closest to you, visits to friends and relatives. What a blessed ordinariness, that can be so full of love of God!
PRAYER
We turn to Our Lady for protection, because we can be quite sure that each of us, in our own state in life – priest or lay-person, single, married or widowed – if we are faithful in the daily fulfilment of our duties, will achieve victory on this earth, the victory of being always loyal to Our Lord. And afterwards we will reach Heaven and rejoice forever in the friendship and love of God, with the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Prayer before Our Lady of Guadalupe, 24 May 1970
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