Day 18 Lenten Reflection

“For the Marists, the first one who followed Christ in his ‘self-emptying’ was Mary. … She was content not to be seen and made ‘no noise’, as Fr. Colin, SM liked to say: Here is the pattern for the Marists. …in recommending the ‘hidden and unknown’, wants us to empty ourselves, so that, as far as possible, there are only Jesus, his Father and their Spirit working through us. Then egos, ambitions, sensitivities, self-seeking, self-regard, will not get in the way of God’s grace, of which we are to be ministers.”

Stabat Mater
O how sad and sore distressed
Was that Mother, highly blest
Of the sole-begotten One.