We honor the Holy Mother in this meeting;
1. meditation
10 Minute Morning Meditation for Clarity, Stability, and Presence | Goop - YouTube
2. song holy mother by eric clapton and pavarotti
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x9uYu4R2nk8
Background of song
Hear Clapton and Pavarotti sing a prayer to the "Holy Mother" (aleteia.org)
3. Narrative
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy
Mary As Corporate Personality
Meditation 48 of 53
We see that Mary is the archetype, the personification of the one who represents and sums up the entire mystery of how salvation is received, and this has many dimensions. Like Jesus, I believe she is a Corporate Personality, a stand-in and exemplar for all of us. This is why the older churches so honored her and were fascinated by her. She is us!
The “immaculate conception” refers to her identity before she had done anything right or anything wrong (perhaps implied in Romans 8:30).
Her free election at the Annunciation with no mention of merit (Luke 1:38), as it is for us.
Her virgin motherhood is shrouded in mystery even for her (Luke 2:19, 51), as it is for us.
She has a quiet, ordinary life (no statements for thirty years), as most of ours are.
She shows heroic “standing” in dignity and solidarity with the pain and despair at the end (John 19:25).
She demonstrates receptivity to the shared life of the Holy Spirit along with everybody else at Pentecost (Acts 1:14).
All of these dimensions point to the full meaning of how God is born into the world! It is never about us, and always about God. We, like Mary, are merely “handmaids,” instruments, and it took such a woman as this to make the whole pattern glaringly clear.
Adapted from Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, pp. 177-178
4. Prayer
Prayer of St. Aloysius
to the Blessed Mother
O holy Mary, my
Mistress into thy blessed trust and special keeping, into the bosom of thy
tender mercy, this day, every day of my life and at the hour of my death, I
commend my soul and body; to thee I entrust all my hopes and consolations, all
my trials and miseries, my life and the end of my life, that through thy most
holy intercession and thy merits, all my actions may be ordered and disposed
according to thy will and that of thy divine Son.
Amen.
5. Meditation
6. Song
Magnificat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_iixWJo-7k
Immaculate Mother
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaquwkfPwJU
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