There is so much to contemplate in Mary’s Immaculate Heart. She “carefully kept all these things,” reveals to us the Virgin Mother’s contemplative nature. To keep and to guard is to take care of something treasured; it is to preserve, to gather what is valued, and to set it in a secure place: the heart. In order to “keep” the Word one must first hear it; to hear it one must be recollected; and to be recollected one must first have a prayerful heart. In prayer, Mary learned how to be in total communion with God and how to belong totally to Him.
Our Lady prayed and kept all things in her heart. In prayer, she kept her heart in a constant and loving dialogue with God’s Heart. In prayer, she kept “all things.” This includes even more so what she did not comprehend, what she could not see, what seemed beyond her capacity or strength, what was beyond her understanding. All of these things, she kept in her heart to immerse them in God’s love and light. Her prayer was the prayer of a pure heart with her human love in perfect harmony with Divine Love.
We are called to pray like the Blessed Mother. We are to be receivers of the Word; we are to be men and women of prayer. Like our Blessed Mother, we must learn to keep all things with care and to protect our hearts through internal recollection and mature discernment. There is too much noise inside and outside of us. Too many words and too many voices speak to our hearts and suffocate the fruitfulness of the Word of God in us. The only true treasure is the Word of God, revealed to us and united with the Marian heart of Mary.
"And Mary kept all these things, pondering upon them in her heart." Luke 2:19
O Mother Mary, we ask you to keep all the intentions we receive through this ministry in your most loving, Immaculate heart.
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