Scripture, Reflection & Prayer 08/5/2008

Even if I am made the libation for the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
- Phil 2:17

Reflection: The Immaculate Conception also entails sacrifice on the part of Mary. Therefore, we cannot consider ourselves favored children of the Lord and His Mother if our lives know nothing of sacrifice.
- Pope John XXIII



Prayer: O Mary, you shared the sacrifices of Jesus from the privations at His Birth, to the renunciations of the Hidden Life to the tyrdom on Calvary. Join my little daily sacrifices to His.

From: Mary Day by Day (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

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