FULL OF GRACE

FULL OF GRACE


Today we celebrate
The feast of the
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION of
The Blessed Virgin Mary


She was indeed
FULL OF GRACE=
“Hail Mary=full of GRACE.......”


“Mary said='Behold-I am
The handmaid of the Lord


May it be done to me
According to your word'” Luke 1:38


Mary was without sin
From the VERY BEGINNING


Looking at an infant=it would
Be EASY to know that an INFANT
Is WITHOUT the stain of sin


But as we grow older=with
The PASSAGE of years
Sin gets a hold of us


But if we STAY CLOSE to God=
IF we pray to God and Jesus
For the HOLY SPIRIT


We can FIND GRACE
ONCE AGAIN


NOT completely full of grace
Like MARY


But we can FIND some grace
To SUSTAIN US
Through this world
And our lives


“You are
The most excellent
Of men


And your lips
Have been anointed
WITH GRACE


Since God
Has blessed you forever” Psalm 45:2


“With great power
The apostles continued


To testify to
The Resurrection
Of the Lord Jesus


And GOD'S GRACE
Was so powerfully at work
In them all


That there was
No needy persons among them” Acts 4:33-34


“But by the GRACE OF GOD
I am what I am


And his GRACE to me
Was not without effect” 1 Corinthians 15:10


It was through
God's favor and grace
That Mary KNEW
No sin


Yet she still knew all the BURDENS
Of being human=
She knew sorrow=worry=anxiety=
And ALL the burdens
Of the human heart


We must try to EMULATE Mary
We must follow
The Spirit of God


We must live by FAITH
And walk with ENDURANCE
Through all the years of LIFE=
Trying to obtain SOME GRACE


“The GRACE of our Lord
Jesus Christ
BE with your spirit
Brothers and sisters=AMEN” Galatians 6:18


We will NEVER
Be free of sin
Like Mary


But we MUST trust God
And his goodness=and try to
OBTAIN GRACE through our lives


In Jesus' name=and in the name of the FATHER=and our Blessed Mother=FULL OF GRACE


Robert P. Wallman
12-8-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. James Stephen Behrens, O.C.S.O.