Learning from Mary

In this age of immediacy and instant satisfaction, what can Mary teach us? Why should we learn from her?

Christ Himself was the first to learn from Mary, His Mother. Like every child, He spent long moments gazing at her. In her face, He saw a woman, but He also recognized the one whom His Father had chosen as “the Chosen One.” Though divine by nature, He embraced within Himself the deeply human qualities He recognized in Mary.

Mary, a Perfect Example

In my family, Saint Joseph was the primary model, especially for us three men: my father, my brother, and myself. We prayed the Rosary, and I knew Mary, the mother of Jesus, but only a little. My mother had a deep devotion to Saint Joseph. She admired his humility, his acceptance of his role as guardian of the Redeemer, and the fact that he lived with “two people who never sinned.” I must admit that, as a child and as a teenager, I did not fully grasp what that really meant.