12th Week of Ordinary Time C – Saturday - Optional Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear brothers and sisters, may the Lord give you peace. The Church invites us today to contemplate the Immaculate Heart of Mary, that most pure, most loving, and most faithful heart in all of creation—a heart that beats in perfect harmony with the will of God. In the Gospel today, we are given a tender and profound image of Mary’s inner life: “His mother kept all these things in her heart.” This short verse opens to us a mystery: Mary's heart was not only the physical organ that gave life to Jesus within her womb; it became the sacred dwelling where the mysteries of salvation were received, pondered, and treasured.