The Wounds of Christ.🙏🏻

Mary is back home again having spent a spell in hospital. Her wise words make me smile: ‘When some illness comes our way, and then when it goes away again, life is like a honeymoon’. 

I knew Mary when she was a beautiful young girl, before life got complicated and deeply painful for her. Many years have passed since that time and Mary, even more beautiful now, content and well cared for. In turn, she cares for all of us with her comforting faith, wise words, and joyful sense of humour. Her stick-to-it-ivness. 

Jesus kept His Wounds. ‘The eternal freshness of the wounds of Christ’. (Venerable Fulton Sheen). Mary’s wounds visible too, part of her story. Gladsome Light of Christ shining brightly through them on all of us who are profoundly privileged to be her friends..

Pen in hand, notebook at the ready every time we chat. I know it is Jesus who speaks.🌹 

‘Speak Lord for your servant is listening’. (1Samuel 3:9)

“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses’. (Pope Paul VI)

Today, January 9th, 2022, Mary’s response when she learned that I am suffering from COVID right now; ‘Oh Bridget, I will pray for you all the time. If you got it bad it would finish you’. 😀🙏🏻