How to get close to Mary our Mother

[panoikei]

Hello,

Get it straight from the horse’s mouth. From Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (in Latin ):

Lucis mysteria

1. Ab infantia et vita Nazarethana ad publicam Iesu vitam transiens contemplatio ad ea mysteria nos conducit quae peculiari nomine nuncupari licet “lucis mysteria”. Re quidem vera, totum Christi mysterium lumen est. Ipse est «lux mundi» (Io 8, 12). Haec tamen emergit pars potissimum publicae vitae per annos, nuntiante Illo Regni Evangelium. Si communitati christianae significare cupimus quinque praecipua tempora — mysteria videlicet luminosa — huius vitae Christi intervalli, designari apte credimus haec: 1. Eius in Baptismate apud Iordanem;
2. in sui ipsius autorevelatione apud Canense matrimonium;
3. in Regni Dei proclamatione coniuncta cum invitamento ad conversionem;
4. Ipsius in Transfiguratione ac denique
5. in Eucharistiae institutione, quae nempe sacramentalis est paschalis mysterii declaratio.

The same paragraph in English:

The Mysteries of Light

1. Moving on from the infancy and the hidden life in Nazareth to the public life of Jesus, our contemplation brings us to those mysteries which may be called in a special way “mysteries of light”. Certainly the whole mystery of Christ is a mystery of light. He is the “light of the world” (Jn 8:12). Yet this truth emerges in a special way during the years of his public life, when he proclaims the Gospel of the Kingdom. In proposing to the Christian community five significant moments – “luminous” mysteries – during this phase of Christ’s life, I think that the following can be fittingly singled out: (1) his Baptism in the Jordan,

(2) his self-manifestation at the wedding of Cana,

(3) his proclamation of the Kingdom of God, with his call to conversion,

(4) his Transfiguration, and finally,

(5) his institution of the Eucharist, as the sacramental expression of the Paschal Mystery.

Thank you so much JMJ. I’ve been trying to find this for so long. I think my kids are making me crazy. I always forget to look it up at home and have to use breaks at work, if I can remember the many things I want to do. Thank you sooooooooooooo much.

 

[Godlovestrength]

I’m having a difficult time with this for some reason I’m a mother myself and know she is our role model for the perfect woman and mother. Besides praying the rosary, anyone have advice?

I once asked Jesus “Lord how do I love the way You do”?
I believe this is what He said to me.
Do you love your parents? I said yes!
Do you love your brothers sisters the same as your parents? I said I think so.
Do you love your cousens the same? I said I don’t know them all
Do you love the gang people? I don’t know them I said.
Then what would happen if you took ***my mother as your mother ***and me as your father? I would have spiritual parents I said.
Then what would happen to your love for all the people on earth?
I thought for a while and then I said “It would all be the same I would love them all equal”
Then I believe Jesus told me to go out and do it.

I told our priest what I had been told and that this is what I believe and he told me that this is what the catholic church tells us to do.
God bless