When we appoint someone at our house or in the institution as a domestic helper, we expect the person to do the duties entrusted or listed. However, the work is actually ours. It is our work that we should have otherwise done. The helper appointed is actually assisting us in the task of doing our work. Even when the one appointed does the work solely, it does not become her work. If he or she does not do the work, either because the person is sick or has left the job, the one who employs has to find alternative hands or do it oneself. It falls back to the one whose work it ultimately is.
As we celebrate the feast of Mary our help, it is good to remind ourselves that the role of Mother Mary is that of a helper. She is not the total answer to any and every of our question. She isn't going to do all our work, taking it upon herself as if we had nothing to do with it. Far from an employed or enslaved helper, she is one who volunteers to help. In so much, as she offers her great courage and virtues as a support to our own efforts, she helps. We need to take responsibility and be humble enough to seek her readily available intercession.
Happy feast!
As we celebrate the feast of Mary our help, it is good to remind ourselves that the role of Mother Mary is that of a helper. She is not the total answer to any and every of our question. She isn't going to do all our work, taking it upon herself as if we had nothing to do with it. Far from an employed or enslaved helper, she is one who volunteers to help. In so much, as she offers her great courage and virtues as a support to our own efforts, she helps. We need to take responsibility and be humble enough to seek her readily available intercession.
Happy feast!
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