The Holy Father highlighted that “the Liturgy makes us enter into the feelings of the Church; and the Church, so to speak, learns them from the Virgin Mother.”
“Let’s think about the gratitude that Mary must have felt when she contemplated the newborn Jesus. It is an experience that only a mother can have, and yet, in her, the Mother of God, has a unique, incomparable depth,” she indicated.
“Mary knows, she alone with Joseph, where that Child comes from. However, He is there, breathing, crying, needing to eat, be covered, cared for. The Mystery gives space to gratitude, which arises from the contemplation of the gift in gratuitousness, while drowning in the anxiety of having and appearing.”