Moving through the shadows of the Gospel pages, we glimpse a striking parallel between the spirituality of Jesus and that of his Mother.<\/p>\n
Mary, at the decisive moment of her life, resolved her destiny with the word, “Thy will be done) (Lk 1:37). Jesus, when “His hour” had come, resolved the destiny of His life and the salvation of the world with the same word, “Thy will be done” (Mk 14:36). This word symbolizes and synthesizes a vast spirituality that encompasses the entire life with its impulses and commitments in the line of the Poor of God.<\/p>\n
When Mary wishes to express her spiritual identity, her “personality” before God and men, she does so with those words: I am a servant of the Lord (Lk 1:38). When Jesus presents himself as a photographic image, to be copied and imitated, he does so with the words, “meek and humble” (Mt 11:29). According to exegetes, the two expressions share the same meaning, once again within the spirituality of the Poor of God.<\/p>\n
Mary affirms that the Lord has dethroned the powerful and exalted the humble (Luke 1:52). Jesus says that the proud will be humbled and the humble exalted.<\/p>\n
From these and other parallels found in the Gospels, we can deduce that Mary had an extraordinary and decisive influence on the life and spirituality of Jesus; that much of the Gospel inspiration is due to Mary as its distant source; that she was an excellent teacher, and her teaching consisted not of many words but of living with great intensity a certain spirituality, with which her Son was imbued from childhood; and that, finally, the Gospel is generally a distant echo of Mary’s life.<\/p>\n
Taken from the book: “The Silence of Mary,” Chapter IV, Section: “The Son, Portrait of His Mother,” by Father Ignacio Larra\u00f1aga.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moving through the shadows of the Gospel pages, we glimpse a striking parallel between the spirituality of Jesus and that of his Mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditar-y-vivir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15333,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions\/15333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}