Jesus receives praises to His Mother, she who heard and fulfilled the Word of God
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Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel text
Lk 11:27-28
Lk 11:27-28
While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
Gospel's Commentary
Today a woman, filled with enthusiasm, praises Jesus’ “mother”: pure enthusiasm! He, in a calmer tone, seems to brush it aside… In reality, Jesus Christ goes straight to what is decisive: He praises docility to the will of God. And in this, the Blessed Virgin Mary is unsurpassed. No one knows the Heart of God as she does! No one has identified herself with the Will of God as she has!
—“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord”: this response echoes throughout our history and is transforming the destiny of humanity.