“Disciples in the school of the Virgen Mary, pray for us!”
Your young lives sum up the curriculum of an authentic disciple’s life. Yes, Francisco and Jacinta, becoming a faithful scholar in the school of the Blessed Virgin implied the process of self-discipline, in which you learned to enter into the silence of your interior room and from there, learn the art of true listening. As your Maternal Mistress had herself done so long ago, you learned to keep all things in your heart, living in the unceasing dialogue of a soul that seeks the will of the Father above all other things. As you grew in wisdom and holiness, you truly began to listen, not for words that might be easily memorized and then forgotten, but for the true plenitude of the Message of the Mother of God.
Francis and Jacinta Marto, who joyfully sang the holy name of the Virgin Mary until the day she herself responded, calling you by your own names for your eternal dwelling, pray for us!
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Brittany Culver, asm