Daily Reflections, 17 June 2023. The Immaculate heart of Mary. (Lk. 2: 41-51).

The Immaculate heart of Mary is one of our specific devotion as Catholics. It stresses the holiness, love and exceptional purity of the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a heart that was filled with God's presence. A heart that sought God affectionately. According to Pope Francis, the "anxiety that Mary and Joseph felt when they could not find Jesus, reveals Jesus's centrality in the Holy Family". This should also be our anxiety whenever our hearts are distant from Jesus.

Prayer: Dear Lord help us to search Christ with all our heart In God's house, may we be able to encounter the divine Teacher and be saved.

Sacred heart of Jesus, may your kingdom come!

Immaculate heart of Mary, pray for us!

Fr. G. R. BIDZOGO SAC