Carmelite homily for Lectionary 500 | Presentation of Mary | Thursday, November 21, 2019
Today we celebrate the feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple. Blessed Titus Brandsma says, “Mary is the mirror in which we should ever watch ourselves; the mother whom her children ought to resemble more and more.” When we look at Mary we see woman of faith, woman of trust, woman of prayer, woman of nurturing, woman of loyalty, woman of life. And when we hold that to ourselves; when that’s our mirror where we see ourselves, I think, when the Lord comes, unlike in today’s Gospel when there’s a lament over Jerusalem, the Lord will not lament us because we will resemble his mother. Mary is the mirror in which we ought to watch ourselves; the mother whom her children ought to resemble more and more. Let us hold up that mirror.