Mary Helps Us to Be Docile to the Holy Spirit

By Fr. Roy Cimagala

LET’S use some legal jargon to bring out the truth of our faith about how Our Lady can help us to be docile to the Holy Spirit.

Whereas, God always intervenes in our life through Christ in the Spirit because he is our Creator and Father who will always be with us;

Whereas, it is always God who directs our life to its ultimate end which is to be with him in heaven for all eternity;

Whereas, our life is supposed to be a life in the Spirit, since we are meant to share the very life and nature of God, and for this reason, the Spirit continually prompts us as to what to think, understand, react, etc. to all the events and circumstances of our life;

Whereas, Our Lady, conceived immaculate, i.e., without original sin, enjoyed the perfect condition to obey and follow the will of God as evidenced during the Annunciation, and all throughout her life;

We can only conclude that Mary, Our Lady, is our best guide to discern and follow the constant promptings of the Holy Spirit in our life. We should always go to Our Lady if we want to discern what the Holy Spirit is prompting us and to follow his promptings continually. With her, we are led to Christ, to God.

All this because Mary is not only the Mother of Christ, and therefore can be rightly called as the Mother God. She is truly also our Mother since Christ gave her to be our Mother through St. John just before he died on the cross. St. John took her home but it was she who took care of him and the rest of the apostles who were in fear just after Christ’s death.

She truly also cares for us now as our Mother. And she does it the way she took care of Christ. She it was who understood Christ the best. She is the best teacher we can have in knowing, understanding and loving Christ. Her constant observation and pondering in her heart of what she saw in Christ is the perfect way we ought to follow in relating ourselves to Christ.

She is actually present in all aspects of our life, since as a mother who is already in heaven, she involves herself completely in our life, be it in the spiritual, moral or material aspects. She is never indifferent to our conditions, our varying situations and predicaments. She loves us with a human and supernatural heart, always oozing with human affection as well as divine love.

She is always around, especially during our difficulties. She is not scandalized by our sins and dirt, but as a mother she is eager to clean us up. With all the privileges given to her by God, she can always do all these things.

If need be, she will make extraordinary interventions in our life as when she makes special apparitions if only to convey an urgent message to us. And with her, things will always turn out well, since God cannot refuse her appeals on our behalf, as shown in that first miracle of Christ during the wedding at Cana.

We have to learn to deal with her, developing a deep, most childlike devotion to her. We can ask ourselves: how many times have we gone to her today? How often do we express our devotion to her during the day, from morning to night? How do we fulfil the many Marian acts of piety? Do we try to make a new loving effort every day to converse with her?

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