1st Sunday after Pentecost: Let's Not Forget Mary
As Mary's Month of May winds down on this Trinity Sunday, the 1st Sunday after Pentecost, the Octave Day of Pentecost, here's something I came across that urges us to allow our relationship to Our Blessed Mother to mature. Father E.J Cuskelly M.S.C suggests that just as our relationship with our earthly mothers matures over time, so should our relationship with the mother of our supernatural life. We accomplish this by deepening our relationship. Rather than focus so much on all those pious practices we've developed since we were children, we seek to understand Our Lady better by considering how her relationship to Our Lord grew in time. Our seeking after further knowledge of Mary will not be so much a search for new truths about her, but rather an effort to penetrate more deeply into the supernatural realities of her relationship with Christ and the Body of Christ. And this – since it is supernatural – can come only from the light of God’s grace. Thus does ou...