If there is one place in a kid’s world where imagination still thrives, it has to be sports. Listening to a group of boys at the playground, you can hear them compare themselves to the great basketball players or football players of today. The young players imitate the moves of the professionals, mimicking the stance, their style and their play. Boys have done it for years and probably for years to come.

Mary is a role model of faith, but she does more than just set an example. She shows us the way. What happens to Mary is what will happen to us if we are faithful and true to the Lord. Mary sought to do God’s will, giving her consent to His plan even when she did not fully grasp it. Her trust in the Lord is the prime example of what it means to have faith.

It is easy to find reason to be cynical, apathetic and uncertain about faith, religion, the Church and other people. But it can be just as easy to find reason for hope, for perseverance, for trust and for fidelity. We are a pilgrim people, at times mired in sin and failure. But God turns the worst of things into useful tools to help us grow in holiness and draw closer to Him.

Focus on things of beauty, of grace, of goodness and of love. Feed your spirit with the Virgin’s great faith. Your soul, too, will sing the greatness of the Lord

James Gaffney,
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jim@pilotbulletinbuilder.net