WHY COME TO JESUS THROUGH MARY?

To answer this question we need to understand
THE CALVARY ENTRUSTMENT

Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus, His Mother and His Mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen His Mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, he said to His Mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, He said to the disciple: Behold thy Mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own (John 19:25-27).

POPE JOHN PAUL 11:The Redeemer entrusts his mother to the disciple, and at the same time he gives her to him as his mother. Mary’s motherhood which becomes man’s inheritance is a gift: a gift which Christ himself makes personally to every individual. The Redeemer entrusts Mary to John because he entrusts John to Mary. At the foot of the Cross there begins that special entrusting of humanity to the Mother of Christ, which in the history of the Church has been practised and expressed in different ways. The same Apostle and Evangelist, after reporting the words addressed by Jesus on the Cross to his Mother and to himself, adds: “And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home (John 19:27).

This statement certainly means that the role of son was attributed to the disciple and that he assumed responsibility for the Mother of his beloved Master. And since Mary was given as a mother to him personally, the statement indicates, even though indirectly, everything expressed by the intimate relationship of a child with its mother. And all of this can be included in the word “entrusting”. Such entrusting is the response to a person’s love, and in particular to the love of a mother.

The Marian dimension of the life of a disciple of Christ is expressed in a special way precisely through this filial entrusting to the Mother of Christ which began with the testament of the Redeemer on Golgotha (Redemptoris Mater, On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life of the Pilgrim Church, Pope John Paul 11, St Paul Pubs., Homebush, NSW: April 1987. Pages 95-96).

WOMAN, BEHOLD THY SON. BEHOLD THY MOTHER (Jn. 19:26-27)

JESUS: I ENTRUST MY MOTHER TO YOU.
16^th July 1994 Feast Day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
(p761 HLAW)

And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more
(Luke 12:48).

HOLY SPIRIT: Jesus wishes you to entrust yourself to His Mother Mary. He wants you to receive the same teaching that He did from Me and from His Mother. He submitted to her will for the greater part of His life (cf Luke 2:51). Then He obeyed her command to begin His mission of saving souls (cf John 2:5). He was obedient to the Father’s will (cf John 4:34; Philippians 2:8).

Jesus wishes you to be obedient to His Father and to His Mother as He was. He requests you to comply with His wishes (cf Luke 9:23; John 19:27). Then He will begin that avalanche of love within your heart (cf page 402 HL). Then He will indwell your soul and your happiness will overflow. You will begin to resemble His Most Beloved Mother who is the image of Himself. You will become Christ like (cf 1 Corinthians 2:16), and begin to exude that love for God and mankind that all other Christs possess. I will shower you with My gifts and love. You will grow in the love of your Lord. You will take on the likeness of your Christ (cf Philippians 2:5). You will be filled with the love of God and exude His love (p83HLAW).

HOLY SPIRIT: If you wish to receive My gifts of love, entrust yourself to the Heart of your Immaculate Mother. I will bond you tightly together in a unity of love and forgiveness which you have hitherto never known before or understood fully. I will draw you into her motherly embrace and she in turn, through My powerful love, will take you directly into her Son’s Sacred Heart wounded on the Cross for your sins and the sins of the world (p625 HLAW).

POPE JOHN PAUL 11: Mary guides the faithful to the Eucharist (Redemptoris Mater, 1987, page 95).

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