Happy feast of the Immaculate Conception

“Mary was as pure as the glass of a very clean window that has no other function than to admit the light of the sun.  If we rejoice in that light, we implicitly praise the cleanness of the window.”
                 --Thomas Merton.

To reflect upon the Immaculate Conception of Mary is thus to allow oneself to be attracted by the “yes” which joined her wonderfully to the mission of Christ, Redeemer of human- ity; it is to allow oneself to be taken and led by her hand to pronounce in one’s turn “fiat” to the will of God, with all one’s existence interwoven with joys and sadness, hopes and disap- pointments, in the awareness that tribulations, pain and suffer- ing make rich the meaning of our pilgrimage on the earth."
             --BXVI, Message for the Sixteenth World Day of the Sick January 11, 2008



Mary, the Medium through which the Light enters the word, Ora Pro Nobis.