WORD OF GOD - 2 MACC 7:20-23

2 MACCABEES 7:20-23

The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honourable memory. Although she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. She encouraged each of them in the language of their ancestors. Filled with a noble spirit, she reinforced her woman’s reasoning with a man’s courage, and said to them, ‘I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of humankind and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws.’

---- mine,

Every woman is called to be a mother no matter her vocation in life. This is the will of My Father in heaven that every woman ever born emulate the second Eve, the crown of His creation, My Virgin Mother, Mary. The woman spoken of in My Word to you this day is a woman of valor and is a foreshadow of My own Mom. My Mother is the template on which God desires all women to be patterned. A great number of women, including you, are unaware of their great potential and they live and die with a greater portion of their courage, wisdom, and strength untapped and unleashed. Pray to My Mother and she will obtain from Me for you the grace required for you to strive to be like her especially when it requires courage to do so. She was like you in all things save sin.