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Straight
from the Heart
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 IF
WE COULD BE LIKE MARY
- By Carolle
Bautista
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As a little child, I remembered how we would
celebrate the devotion to Mother Mary during the month of May in
our small barrio. We had a makeshift altar where anyone in the
barrio could offer flowers to Mother Mary every night.
I specially liked weekends when I am allowed to do the flower
offerings to our Mother Mary.
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When I learned how to say my prayers, I was eventually able
to pray the Rosary, which I realized much later was taught to us
by Mother Mary herself. But because of my young age, I did not
yet understand why the prayer took so long to recite and often
found it difficult to finish the prayer.
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As I look back over the years, I realized how I have grown
with Mother Mary in my midst, always
 calling on her to intercede on my behalf, yet barely
knowing her at all. She had been my intercessor when my husband
was in the hospital bed fighting for his life (that was the first
time in my life I repeatedly recited the mysteries of the Rosary,
five times in a row), when my children are sick and need healing,
or when I am fervently praying for my personal intentions.
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Maybe, it took too long for me to realize who Mother Mary
really is. I felt I just recognized her when I started to have
the longing to pray the Rosary, to be involved in devotions to
her, and to learn to pray in meditation, not repetition. I always
remind myself of her simple ways, her purity of heart and most of
all, her humility and good example of obedience to the will of God
and her motherhood.
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In Luke 1:38, it shows how willing Mary was to obey what is
God’s will for her, that is, to be the mother of Jesus, our
Savior, “I am the handmaid of the Lord; let what you have said be
done to me.”
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If we could be like Mary, wouldn’t our lives be totally
different? Why not? Her life was lived for the Lord, and not for
herself. She was always a good child to her parents, then a good
mother to Jesus, and a good wife to
St. Joseph. How she loved and served the Lord was beyond
measure. She lived by faith in the Lord and her trust in Him
never wavered. Once she discerned the will of God, she followed
and accepted it wholeheartedly.
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We could only strive to become like our model, Mother Mary,
if we ask for her intercession to help us. Finally, let us ask
ourselves how God is calling us right now. We should not resist
God’s will just like Mary. We would realize later on that from
simple beginnings, our lives could have new beginnings, and we
truly begin to live.
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