Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saturday – 8th June 2024 – 2 Tim 4,1-8; Lk 2,41-51
Responsible Search
Yesterday we celebrated Jesus’s Sacred Heart, the eloquent and powerful revelation of how thoroughly and passionately God loves us. Today we celebrate Mary’s Immaculate Heart, the inspiring model of how we can respond as humans to God’s love. Mary’s experiences with Christ were not always easy to endure or understand. The story of the finding of Jesus in the Temple offers us a glimpse of Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Losing him in the Temple, she was filled with “great anxiety.” When she realized Jesus was missing, she didn’t blame Joseph, get angry with him, or give him her peace of mind. She didn’t yell at Jesus when she found him. Rather than accuse Jesus, she first made known her anxiety by expressing her relentless search and her disappointment with a question. For Mary, Jesus was the centre of her life and she would not rest until she found him. Her desperate search discloses a great deal about who we are and of our priority in life. She became an instrument through which God was able to reveal his son into the world, especially as an exemplary doer of Father’s will. If we are responsible like Mary, we too can become instruments in the hands of God and reveal Jesus to the world.
