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on <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">this feast of Mary the mother of God</span>, I would like to emphasize
specially <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the word</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today’s Gospel associates with <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">her: </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>treasured.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>"Mary
treasured these things and reflected on them in her heart."</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>She pondered
them, turned them over, sought out their causes, saw their
implications, allowed them to work their way into the marrow of her
bones.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Bl.
John Henry Newman said that<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> this treasuring quality of Mary makes her
the patroness of theology.</b></span> He furthermore observed that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>theology is one
of the marks of a healthy Catholicism</b></span>. Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure,
Dante, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Newman himself, and John Paul
II are all Marian figures in this sense.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">So when you know your mission, be astonished by what God has done, and never stop treasuring it.</span></b></span></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>