BELOVED BY MARY (Teresa Gazhiiova)

Mary loves us. If we wanted to describe Her love we would feel helpless as the visionaries testify: “Every human word is poor in comparison with how much Mary loves us. She always loves us, She is decisive, strong and firm in love. It is impossible to separate love from Her because She is love. She is like the sun. The sun can’t help but do what is its true nature – that is to shine and to warm. Even if the sun is hidden by the clouds it still shines because it can’t otherwise”.

The Heart of Mary is an Immaculate one filled with God. Therefore Her nature is always to love. She can’t help but love because there is not the slightest shadow within Her that could stop Her love.

She loves God above all else, She loves the Church, loves each one of us even those who don’t understand Her love and reject it. She said: “I love you even when you are still far from Me and My Son”.

Her love isn’t an emotional mood but a perpetual state. Therefore She is a refuge for us. We know that we always may come to Her and we’ll always be accepted in love. Medjugorje is a proof of it, it’s a place where the pilgrims from all over the world come to find what they have lost and they find love.

Lord Jesus said to sister Faustina: “If My love doesn’t convince you then nothing will convince you”. (The Diary of Saint Faustina No. 580). Jesus sends His Mother to the earth to help us witness His love.

Today He calls His disciples with love and does it through Mary. She was His first disciple completely devoted. His words were fulfilled in Mary. She opens our hearts for us to hear Jesus’s call to love and to have courage to answer “yes” as She responded in Nazareth.

On January 2, 2013, She said to us:

“Dear children, with much love and patience I strive to make your hearts like unto Mine. I strive, by My example, to teach you humility, wisdom and love because I need you; I cannot do without you My children. According to God’s will I am choosing you, by His strength I am strengthening you. Therefore, My children, do not be afraid to open your hearts to Me. I will give them to My Son and in return, He will give you the gift of divine peace. You will carry it to all those whom you meet, you will witness God’s love with your life and you will give the gift of my Son through yourselves. Through reconciliation, fasting and prayer, I will lead you. Immeasurable is My love. Do not be afraid!”.

To be beloved and chosen ones by Mary means to become like Our Mother and to do whatever Jesus tells us.

One Missionary was going by bus and praying the Breviary. An icon of the Most Holy Virgin Mary fell out of his book. A little boy picked it up and asked with curiosity:

• Who is this beautiful Lady?

    The missionary smiled and answered:

• Thi is my Mother.

    The boy looked at him and said sincerely:

• You don’t look like Her at all. 

     Just as Jesus does Mary also repeats to us: “If anyone loves me, he will keep My word”. We are not for Her just anonymous souls but specific children whom She carries in Her Heart and whom She needs even when it seems to us that we are unfaithful and unworthy. Mary says that we are chosen because we have responded. She sees even the least effort and the least step of faith and that is a great joy for us. 

The prayer, daily reflection on the Gospel, fast, renunciation, the Holy Confession and the Eucharist open us and      transform our hearts. Living according to the main messages we become “Her extended hands” to the world which hasn’t come to know the God of love. That means to be ready to share our time, kind word and concrete help. Let’s implore Mary to help us to be determined and unstoppable in love as She is.

  Prayer. Mary, thank You for choosing us as well. Thank You for Your love, we implore You help us not to forget that we are beloved by You. Your love is stronger than all evil. Help us to accept Your love so that we may carry it for those who haven’t come to know it. Help us to pray with all our heart, fast, sacrifice ourselves, to love, to be Your hands to the world around us. We desire to be like You. Amen.