Today is the feast of the Lord, who is presented in the Temple and who, despite being a Child, is already a light to enlighten the nations. But it is also the feast of Mary. She carries the Child in her arms. In her hands, too, is light for our souls, the light that illuminates the darkness of knowledge and human existence, of understanding and of the heart.
“The thoughts of many hearts are revealed when her maternal hands carry this great divine light, when she brings it close to man.”
Our Lady, on today's feast, encourages us to purify our hearts so that the offering of our whole being may be pleasing to God, so that we may discover Christ, our Light, in all circumstances. She wanted to submit herself to the common rite of ritual purification, without any need to do so, so that we might carry out the cleansing of the soul, which is so necessary!
From the beginning of the Church, the Holy Fathers taught with great clarity about her immaculate purity, with titles full of beauty, admiration, and love. They say of her that she is a lily among thorns, virgin, immaculate, ever blessed, free from all contagion of sin, an unfading tree, an ever-pure fountain, holy and untouched by any stain of sin, more beautiful than beauty, holier than holiness, the only saint who, with the exception of God alone, was superior to all others; by nature more beautiful, more lovely, and holier than the cherubim themselves, more than all the armies of angels...8. Her immaculate life is a call for us to cast out of our hearts everything that, even if small, distances us from the Lord.
HCD
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