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Nazareth        Taking Us By The Hand 

And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with Wisdom, and the Grace of God was upon him.(Luke2:40) 

Scripture tells us very little about Jesus formative years but we know that He lived with His mother for about 30 years and He learnt carpentry skills from Joseph.

Imagine Mary teaching Jesus how to walk, holding both his hands with her back bent over him.

We can ask Her to do the same for us, to take us by the hand and teach us how to live the life God wants us to live.

And so we step out on this Pilgrimage of the Heart as a little child learning to walk.

Jesus said we must be as little children to enter the kingdom of Heaven.

And so in humility we start each new pilgrimage with the spirit of a child.

I remember a time when we were praying for a priest who humbly said

I feel as if all I have done under my own steam in the past has been worth nothing. I feel like a little child learning to walk!

On the wall behind us was a statue of Mary and the child Jesus.

We prayed that he would surrender to the arms of Mary teaching him to walk the spiritual path prepared for him.

And yet every step is planned, the time before we learn to walk is also crucial, a time of preparation, of weaning, of building up our immunity, a time when we are being seven times refined.  

Jesus tells us:

 Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect and let the little children come to Me. To such as these belong the Kingdom of Heaven.

And so we listen to Our Lady and Padre Pio as they guide us on the path of Christian Perfection

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