By the tender mercy of our God, we will be visited by the Sun that rises from on high, to enlighten those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our steps on the path of peace1 . Jesus is the Sun that illuminates our existence. Everything we do, if we want it to have meaning, must make reference to Him.
In a very special and extraordinary way, Our Lady's life is centered on Jesus. It is particularly so on this eve of the birth of her Son. We can hardly imagine the recollection of her soul.
So she always was, and so we must learn to be, so scattered and so distracted by things that are unimportant! Only one thing is truly important in our life: Jesus, and all that concerns Him.
Mary kept all these things pondering them in her heart2; his mother kept these things in her heart3. Twice the Evangelist refers to this attitude of Our Lady in the face of the events that were taking place.
Our Lady conserves and meditates. She knows that interior recollection in which it is possible to value and keep the events, great and small, of her life. In her intimacy, enriched by the fullness of grace, reigns that primitive harmony in which man was created. There is no better place to keep and ponder that exceptional divine action in the world of which she is the witness.
After original sin, the soul loses the dominion of the senses and the natural orientation toward the things of God. In the Virgin it was not so; in us, yes. In her, because she was preserved from the original stain, all was harmony, as in the beginning. Moreover, she was embellished by the singular and extraordinary presence of the Most Holy Trinity in her soul.
Mary is always in prayer, because she does everything in reference to her Son: when she speaks to Jesus, she prays (that is prayer, "speaking with God"), and every time she looks at Him (that too is prayer, looking with faith at Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, really present in the Tabernacle), and when she asks Him or smiles at Him (so many times!), or when she thought of Him. Her life was determined by Jesus, and her feelings were permanently oriented to Him.
Her interior recollection was constant. Her prayer merged with her own life, with her work and her attention to others. Her interior silence was richness, fullness and contemplation.
We ask him today to give us this inner recollection necessary to see and deal with God, who is also very close to our lives.
Hablar con Dios