7th Week of Easter – Monday B – Our Lady of Fatima
My dear brothers and sisters, as you know, I have made it a point to start my reflections by praying a Hail Mary with you. I do this because, first of all, she is our Mother and we know how special all our mothers are, and while we're at it, a special belated Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. Not every country celebrates this special day on the second Sunday of May, but many do. Secondly, of all our mothers, I think you would agree that the Lord has created one to be a model and support to all the rest, for she is the mother of the New Creation, the New Eve, the Woman who would right the wrong of the first Eve through her faith and obedience. A mother so beautifully prefigured as a Queen in the Old Testament, and made to be so in the New, she was none other than the mother of the Risen Lord, the Risen King of the Universe who upholds all things in his divine power.