Mary, Mother of God, New year Luke 2,16-21

I am your Mother

Today, it has become customary for heads of state to speak to their citizens, subordinates, or performances. Thoughts often appear in their speeches in which they assure their goodwill, of the well-being and happiness that they learn and desire. On the first day of the year, the Holy Father also speaks and delivers a message in more than 50 languages ​​to the world in the Church. The civic year’s first day is consecrated in the churches united with Rome – the Virgin Mary. In this way, the Church wants to indicate the importance of the mission of the Virgin Mary and the need for our respect for her.

The evangelist Luke introduces us to Mary today at the moment of worshiping the shepherds in the masquerade of her Son, and she left them after their departure: “She kept all these words in her heart and thought about them” (Luke 2:19).

Mary gave birth to a Son-God and did not become a goddess, but became the Mother of all, for whom he decided to come into the world and die her Son. The Mother of God is the title given to her by her worshipers based on the decision of God, who announced to her through the angel Gabriel: “You will conceive and give birth to a Son and give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest “(Lk 1: 31-32).
Not only did Mary allow Jesus to be formed in her life, but she would allow him to come into the world as a human being. Today we speak of Christ as the God-Man. Christ became a man like us in everything but sin, but he did not cease to be God for a moment. And that’s why we call his mother – the Mother of God.

When we are just a little civilized, each of us will honor our mother, who gave us life. We respect her motherhood. Today, however, we remember the third mother – the Church. None of us believers doubt her concern for children. That is why Mary, the Mother of God, the second Mother, plays an integral place in the Church. The Virgin Mary and the Church today, on the first day of the year, want to draw our attention to the serious things that lie ahead. It is a work for our holiness to gain eternal life. Today, Mary offers us her shoulder as a mother who teaches her child to walk. Mary becomes our teacher, and through the Mother Church, she wants to draw us to herself.
Today we need to be more proud to subscribe to the Mother of God and the Church. We remember this because many are still ashamed of the Church today. They make fun of her, blunt and insult her. Yes, even the Mother Church has different children. She has children who underestimate their weaknesses and sin, insult their Mother. The Mother of God and the Church nevertheless do not stop caring for her children. The more they are sick and unaware of their disease, they care about their children’s health. The Mother of God asks her Son for the prodigal sons not to punish them. The Mother Church also invites repentance on the first day of the year. Is it not our shame to condemn their actions as prodigal sons, not to accept their helping hand?

How many times do we resemble Ulrich from our story? His mother liked him because he was his only son. And she liked him, even more, when she said to him: -Po poor child, his father died. I’ll replace his father … – She had the opportunity to marry a second time. – I’m not going to hurt the baby. I don’t know what my stepfather would be. – And Ulrich grew into a rude, mocking man. – Why was she so stupid? – he told people – she could get married. – Ulrich, she didn’t marry you – the men call him. –And how much misery she has painted! How much she tore from her mouth. – And did I ask her to be born? And did I ask her to give me a piece of bread? – He married and said to his mother immediately: – You don’t have access to my family. You live there, in your shack. – A neighbor who had quite a slippery tongue went to sue: – She laughs at you, swears at you in a pub! – And my mother just complaints as if her heart was cut with her knife: – That’s because I loved him so much. God, why are you shaking me like that ?! – She got sick. – Ulrich, see her, visit her. It belongs to you – the neighbor tells him. – Let him die! I hope they bury her in that hut. When she dies, I’ll demolish it to build a nice modern house there. The land is nice; only the shack will enter there. Let him die as soon as possible, – says Ulrich boyishly. But the woman begs: – Please, what people will say, see her. They wouldn’t give me peace until they died. – Ulrich said, “Well if you’re bothering me too, I’ll go.” It’s after the war. The mine suddenly throws Ulrich he stepped on. The neighbor runs away to her mother again and tells her: – Your son was killed when he went to you. – Did my son come to me? He went to me and killed him for me. That’s a good baby … –

Just a few steps – and your mother’s heart is open. Just a hint that I’m not that harsh – and my mother’s heart is open! And so is the Mother Church. How many times are we ashamed of the words: Do you belong to the believers? Do you belong to the Church? And I would rather deny my faith than if I had to confess to my Mother. What kind of son am I, and what daughter am I? And what awaits such a son and daughter who are ashamed of the Mother who wants to give birth to eternal life? We do ourselves many times to the detriment. We should be rightfully proud because there is no better mother, no better palm, no better heart than this Mother Church who wants to give me the power of Jesus Christ and in Jesus through the Holy Spirit the power to become the son or daughter of God the Father. I have no other choice. If I laugh that the Church is stupid, believing it is nonsense in the 20th century, what wisdom will help me make my life an eternity? To say: – No, this is not true, nothing is after death, it is possible. This Mother Church says: My children, I have the opportunity to give birth to you for eternity, but you must not be ashamed of me. As your Mother, I demand it of you.