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Co-Workers of the Truth 10/7
Posted By reynor | Filed Under Co-Workers of the Truth
In his last words on this earth, the Crucified One says to his mother: “Woman, behold your son” and to the disciple: “Behold your mother.” These words are the document on which the Church is founded, or, let us say, one of the fundamental statements in the document in which Jesus founded the Church and established his covenant with her. They make clear the meaning of “Church” and the manner in which God established his covenant, the new Covenant, with us.
He does this above all by laying claim to Mary’s Yes in a new and more general and even greater context. Her first Yes was to the Son that God willed to bestow on her and to the will of God that required her total and mysterious acquiescence to his incomprehensible and great design. But now, in the hour of the Cross, in the hour of Jesus Christ, she must say her Yes anew and in an even greater dimension. It is now a Yes to a new and different son, who becomes, through her, the same Son. It is a Yes in this new Son to all the sons and daughters that will be hers throughout all history. It is a Yes to whatever he may ask her to do for them throughout all history.
The Church has her foundation in this Yes of Mary that reaches into all history. And vice-versa: the Lord founded the Church by the very fact of giving his mother to the disciple. He gives us a mother, his mother. It is only in this gift that we understand what the Church is. The Church is not a machine, a collection of bureaucrats, of administrators, of events. This is the Church: that we are called into the family of Jesus Christ and so into a community of love with him.
From: Roman homilies, Sept. 18, 1985
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