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Mary in Modern Spirituality

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Do you realize that you might have slept through the greatest experience of your Christian life [Baptism]? Or perhaps you cried through it or simply stared big-eyed at the one baptizing you without understanding a thing of what was going on. This more than all other events must be entered into more fully and more consciously as your life goes on. Your baptism was a consecration, but you must constantly enter into it more fully as a free choice. That is what is meant by consecration. . . . Consecration means embracing more and more fully the actual “incarnation” taking place as the world becomes the Mystical Body of Christ . . . it means becoming more and more aware of your part in the process of Christ’s Body growing to full maturity. . . . Jesus has just one word of advice for us: “This is your mother” (Jn 19:27). And the mother likewise has a final word:  “Do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:6).