What did Jesus and Mary talk about?, Mary: Day 232

What did Jesus and Mary talk about?

Blessed John Henry Newman speculates about the subjects of conversation between Mary and Jesus during the thirty years he lived with her.

What was the grand theme of conversation between Mary and her Son but the nature, the attributes, the providence, and the works of Almighty God? Wouldn’t our Lord be ever glorifying the Father who sent him? Wouldn’t he unfold to her the solemn eternal decrees, and the purposes and will of God? Wouldn’t he from time to time enlighten her in all those points of doctrine which have been first discussed and then settled in the Church from the time of the Apostles till now, and all that shall be till the end—no, these, and far more than these? All that is obscure, all that is fragmentary in revelation, would, so far as the knowledge is possible to man, be brought out to her in clearness and simplicity by him who is the Light of the world.

The same was true of the events which are to come. God spoke to the prophets: We have his communications to them in Scripture. But he spoke to them in figure and parable. There was one, Moses, to whom he vouchsafed to speak face to face: “If there be among you a prophet of the Lord,” God says, “I will appear to him in a vision, and I will speak to him in a dream. But it is not so with my servant Moses. . . . For I will speak to him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not by riddles and figures does he see the Lord” (see Num 12:6–7).

This was the great privilege of the inspired lawgiver of the Jews; but how much was it below the privilege of Mary! Moses had the privilege only now and then, from time to time. But Mary, for thirty continuous years, saw and heard him. And all through that time she was face to face with him, and able to ask him any question which she wished explained, knowing that the answers she received were from the Eternal God, who neither deceives nor can be deceived. —Blessed John Henry Newman, Meditations and Devotions

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
What would be my own speculations about the subjects of conversation between Jesus and Mary? What conversations would I like to have been present for?

CLOSING PRAYER
Blessed Virgin, “to you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God” (Lk 8:10). “O the depths of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!”(Rom 11:33).

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