De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

I sung this at our school Carol Service on Tues. with our pupil worship band: a 6th former on bass + sharing vocals, 2 Yr. 9s on kit (brushes) + assorted percussion. Sent tingles down my spine as we did it. It offers a beautiful reflection on Mary’s persepective, not only of the birth of her child, but of the events of his life thereafter. Prayerful and moving.

What a wonderful teaching! Revelation to response... what he says expresses so well Pope Francis' call that through baptism we are called and sent into the world as "missionary-disciples". This keeps bringing me back to John's Gospel and the Priestly Prayer in Jn 17... ‘Consecrate them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself, that they too may be consecrated by the truth.  ‘It is not for these alone that I pray, but for those also who through their words put their faith in me. May they all be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, so also may they be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.' (Jn  17:17 -21) Communion + mission, revelation + response...