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XV - Resurrection

The Resurrection … our hearts burn at the very word.

Pure praise and thanksgiving, a Magnificat such as our Mother’s heart poured forth. She poured it forth while Jesus lay unborn within her. As Mary stood on the heights of Calvary her Magnificat of thanksgiving was in her heart unchanged. When Jesus had died and risen again how then did she thank God. When she saw Jesus risen how did her soul then magnify her Lord? How is she magnifying him now? Let us honour and join her Magnificat and let us praise him alike in Joy and sadness.

In moments of gladness and in hours of trial, let us thank him for our joys and let us thank him for the grace He gives us to bear our sorrows. Our Lord has died and has risen again and we live in the glad day of his Resurrection.