Andrew McAlister Risking Words
While Mary’s primary response was to seek the marginalised, Benedict’s was to receive them. Of course, after the seeking there was care and support, so too, after the receiving. In both this seeking and receiving, the marginalised of Benedict’s and Mary’s time were supported.
In the life of a Christian meditator, how might these two mission statements, that of Jesus and of the WCCM, combine? How might an oblate of the WCCM engage this mission statement of Jesus, making it somehow our own?
Paul Gardiner, Mary MacKillop’s official biographer, writes this brief and telling assessment of Mary the contemplative: People observing Mary MacKillop’s
