As for every 13th, even this month, the thirteenth day is the day of the Virgin Mary, our heavenly mother. God had already chosen the Virgin Mary at the beginning of the world, so he decided on the thirteenth day of the month for her. We know that on the thirteenth day, the Virgin Mary chose to come and show the world the way back to Jesus Christ. On the thirteenth, she came to Fatima. Since then, every thirteenth day of the month has been her day So let’s look at the Virgin Mary even today, so that we can see in her the great graces with which God gifted her, so that today we can see her as a woman chosen by God, a woman sent to people, to your children. We heard about it in the Letter to the Romans: „To those who love God, everything helps for good.“
There, whom God has looked for, He has also predestined. God chose the Virgin Mary and predestined her for a memorable and unique mission that has no parallel. God saw Mary become the mother of His Son and the mother of all the world’s people. Maria is truly our mother. And it is not only because she wants it to be her privileged wish, but because God gave her the mission to be a mother to every person. We have a beautiful mother. A lovely, pure, holy, immaculate, full of God’s graces, a mother who loves us endlessly, a mother whom, I dare say, we will not find anywhere else in the world. Mary has a very special mission in the life of every Christian, every one of us. Just as she had a very special mission when she lived in this world, a mission to give life to her Son, stand at the birth of the church, encourage the apostles, and teach them. Mary is the true mother of all, heaven, and earth.
We read the Gospel as it became our mother. It was under the cross of her Son who offered his life to God for the salvation of the whole world. As he completed his lifelong sacrifice, the sacrifice of love, the supreme sacrifice, he gave his mother this mission. At the cross, Mary became our mother. It’s strange why at the cross. Each of us is a child of God. Through Jesus Christ, we became children of God, and through our suffering and cross, we can become children of the Virgin Mary. And we are to become them. Jesus suffers in us if we suffer because we are his brothers and sisters. After all, we are children of God. Jesus gave us a special sign through baptism, in which God looks down on us as His children. When we have difficulties and are knocked to the ground under the weight of the crosses, our mother, the Virgin Mary, stands by us.
God sent the Virgin Mary to Fatima. He does not want us to suffer, trouble, or afflict ourselves. He never wants to leave us alone. Likewise, he does not want us to be abandoned in our hardships and tribulations completely without encouragement, like Jesus. Therefore, whenever we have difficulties, he sends the Virgin Mary. He points to her and asks that we remember that she is our mother, that we accept her, beg her, and be with her. Look at her, how she tolerates your pain and helps you in your difficulties. Mary’s special mission – to be the mother of the whole world – will be fulfilled and realized only when every person accepts her as his mother. God will be most glorified, then Jesus will be most glorified, her Son, because he gave us his mother at the end of his earthly life, in other words, when he was completing his will.
Let us rejoice at this sacrifice, on the day of the Virgin Mary, to give us the grace to know how much she loves us and to beg us for the graces we need to endure hardships and sufferings. Let us ask her to walk through her life with her and with all the life that God has prepared for us. Mary’s heart will win. She said it in Fatima. Her heart’s victory will manifest in the fact that people, every believer, will honor her as their authentic and unique mother. That they will honor and love her as Jesus Christ, her Son. We are not afraid to have great respect for the Virgin Mary. Even if one of the people looks at us wrong because our respect for her is too great, we can answer it: „You think that I have bad respect for the Virgin Mary? That I love her more than her Son, Lord Jesus? So it’s not true because I can’t.“
I remember that once I had significant worries that everyone must have, they buy up, and you don’t know where to go. In these worries, I recognized the great help of the Virgin Mary, especially when I prayed to her and entrusted all those worries to her. She let me know that she is my mother, that she does not want me to exaggerate my fears, but that she wants me to give all my concerns to her and through her to Jesus Christ. Humans often cannot solve big problems by ourselves, but the Virgin Mary can help us. Let’s be like her children; she will manifest as our true Mother.
