--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 05/09/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 05/09/10 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2010/05/09/daily-readings-reflection-for-050910#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 05/09/10 May 9, 2010 9:00:00 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) It is fitting on this Mother's Day to say a few words about Mary, the Mother of Jesus.  Since one of the themes from the Gospel for the day emphasizes the "word" of Jesus to his beloved ones and to the beloved disciple, the word that is given to them is SHALOM, the Hebrew word for Peace.  If one translates the salutation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary, we find that the first word she hears from God through God's favorite messenger is SHALOM LEQ or Peace to you!  This woman who probably was in her early teens at that moment, listens carefully to the word of the Angel and at the end gives her own "Fiat" which means "let it be done", of course, "according to your word."  And then, at that moment, the Word of God becomes flesh, that is human, in the womb of his mother Mary. Her "yes" to God would continue throughout her life and is the key to her discipleship as well as her unique virginal motherhood.  She knew Jesus before he was born, during his birth, and afterward in the thirty or more years that followed.  She journeyed with him and spoke her words to him at Cana and sang her hymn to God while visiting her cousin Elizabeth.  Who would not want to have such a mother as she was and is for Jesus and for us today?  At the end when Jesus was speaking his last words, he gave her as mother to the Beloved Disciple and thereby to us who were represented by him.  She is our spiritual mother and we remember her also on this mother's day. Jesus listened to her words after the reverent and gentle confrontation after his being lost and then found in the temple.  Luke, her evangelist, tells us, "And so Jesus advanced in wisdom with the years, and found favor with God and with men."  ...he went down with them (Mary and Joseph) on their journey to Nazareth, and lived there in subjection to them, while his mother kept in her heart the memory of all this." (Translation of Msgr. Ronald Knox). In the Gospel for today, Jesus is definitely speaking to his disciples and to us about his "word".  He says, "Anyone who loves me will be true to my word."  Certainly his mother loved him very much with a singular form of love that only she knew, and she was true to his word all her life.  All of the stages of his life were lived under her tutelage as well as her overwhelming love.  After all, she not only listened to the word of Gabriel saying SHALOM, she also conceived the Word (Jesus become her very flesh, become human here among his people because of her "yes" to God.  John, the Evangelist, gives us the most incarnational line in all of the Bible ..."And the Word was made flesh, and came to dwell among us; and we had sight of his glory, such as belongs to the Father's only-begotten Son, full of grace and truth (Hesed and Emeth in Hebrew). " (Msgr. Knox translation). Jesus promised to send his Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, and yet one with the Father, upon the community of disciples gathered in Jerusalem. That same Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and she conceived and the Word became Jesus living among us.  "And blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus" as we pray in the Ave Maria.  Then Jesus after his resurrection speaks again and sums up all his words in that SHALOM that only He can give.  Mary had heard it first from God; Jesus now lets us all in on God's most creative secret --his Shalom among all of us. "And peace on earth to all of good will." Amen. Alleluia. 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