
25/07/2025
🌹📿There is no They
When I was in Italy in May, I loved how surrounded we were by Mother Mary. She is everywhere! Well, after all, she is the Queen of Heaven and Earth.
I was impressed by how many depictions we saw of her breast feeding. I feel like that’s not as common. Now, the aesthetic appeal of these is…limited (had these artists ever actually seen a baby?! Or a breast?!)…but their point was devotion not beauty.
I took so many pictures of things that made me think of Rosary Club, knowing I’d be told when we needed them. As I was praying for the poor and the hungry last night, Our Lady of Guadalupe stepped forward to help (more on that later), and today I remembered these images.
Our Lady shows us how care and compassion and unconditional love looks and works. It looks like a mother feeding her baby. We are called to love like this out in the world with each other. There is no They.
Let us pray for guidance then take action in the world. For example, as I think about people who are hungry, I make monetary donations for international aid funds, and I make donations of goods to a local food pantry. What are your suggestions?
Let’s stay connected, in community, in prayer, in service.
“Here I will hear their weeping, their sorrow, and will remedy and alleviate all their multiple sufferings, necessities and misfortunes.” - Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego. If he didn’t doubt, why should we?