Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

Brothers and sisters, if Christian prayer is so profoundly Marian, it is because in Mary of Nazareth we see one of us giving birth. God made her fruitful and she came to meet us with his likeness, as every son resembles his mother. She is the Mother of God and our Mother. We say "Our hope" in the Hail, Holy Queen. She resembles the Son, and the Son resembles her. And we, we resemble this Mother who gave a face, a body, and a voice to the Word of God. We resemble her because we can give birth to the Word of God here below, transforming the cry we hear during childbirth. Jesus wants to be born again: we can give him body and voice. This is the birth that Creation awaits.

To hope is to create. To hope is to see this world become God's world: the world in which God, human beings, and all creatures walk together again, in the garden city, the new Jerusalem. May Mary, our hope, always accompany our pilgrimage of faith and hope.