Tenth day of a shrine for Mary

This tenth day of a Shrine a Day for Mary

I offer you the

Our Lady of Fatima shrine.

A handmade clay grotto chapel,

porcelain statue, porcelain roses, porcelain doves

beads and lilies made of cloth

and the words of

Andrew Harvey from The Return of the Mother

The old version of Mary as passive and submissive is a lie.

Look deeply at the story and you see in it a woman of immense

strength, surrendered to God, but not submissive;

humble, patient, tender, infinitely focused on and

burning with real love, but never passive.  

The Mother and her Son came to show us a revolutionary new way

of enacting and witnessing love in action in the world,

not simply to alleviate suffering, but to conspire with the

inner will of grace to change everything and to transform this world.

And this is why Mary has been appearing with such regularity over the last

150 years - because she cares, and cares absolutely

and passionately;

she cares personally and with a tremendous 

suffering intimacy for the future of humanity and of the planet.

She has again and again said that she is the Mother of all human beings,

the universal Queen of Peace.

Please visit Rebecca at

http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/

for these last few days of sharing

in the Pilgrimage of Mary, the divine feminine in 

everything and everyone.

blessings