Mary

At Mass the other day, Father Almagno gave a homily on Mary. He said she is our role model in Holiness. Every time I listen to him preach, or yell at us as some call it, he reminds me of all of the ways I can follow Christ better. This time, for the first time, I was able to say…Hey, I do that! Mary sacrificed her reputation for our Lord. She was pregnant and without husband. The penalty for this was being stoned to death. She knew that and said yes to our Lord anyhow. In a town of around 150 people, everyone would be whispering about it…just like we would today. She still said yes. The moral of his preaching was to not be embarrassed about our Faith. We should be proud to be Catholic and let everyone around us know. I can say in everything I am, I am never embarrassed about my Faith. As Michelle Bachman said “I am unapologetic about my Faith.” Hold onto God in Church, behind closed doors, in public, at your job and with your life. The translation is beautiful at the end of Mass. Go now Glorifying God with your life. How special is that. That means with everything we do. We glorify God not only in Mass and in the sacraments, but with the rest of our life. We need to be good people in every aspect. You and I must also remember that no one part of us defines our relationship with God or who we are as people. Married, divorced, old, young, gay, straight, black, white, student, teacher…wherever we may fall in any of this does not define us completely. It is what we do with these things that makes our relationship special with Him. There is one moral we must all follow regardless of the way we are born. Remember to be like Mary and ask Mary to pray for you at the two most important moments of your life. Right now, this very second and when you die. “…Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”