The Flower That Produces Honey

Continued 👇🏾 ✍🏾The Flower that Produces Honey A flower attracts bees and produces honey. In the same way, our Lady, the True Flower, drew to herself the Son, Christ, and brought forth the sweet law of the Gospel, which is as honey to the soul. Honey is good, nourishing, and healing.So too are Christ and the Gospel both sweet to those who receive them and a remedy for the soul’s wounds. “The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.” (Psalm 86:2) “Hear, O daughter, and see; incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house, for the King will desire your beauty, for He is your Lord.” (Psalm 45:10–11) ✍🏾The Flower that Nourishes Flesh and Soul Flowers provide food for the body for example, plants like cabbage and other edible greens. In the same way, our True mother and Lady provided food not only for the body but also for the soul :Christ Himself. “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.” (John 6:56; Matthew 26:26) ✍🏾The Incomparable Virgin Scholars have said: “In the likeness of man, how shall we liken you, O Virgin?” Let us remain silent in awe, recognizing that we cannot fully describe her glory. Yet our Lady reveals herself through her own humility and holiness. ✍🏾How can she be compared to earthly flowers? A flower may be found on earth and remain on earth, but the Virgin Mary is a lush flower that neither withers nor fades both earthly and heavenly. A flower may be a rose surrounded by thorns, but our Lady is a pure rose without thorns. Gold is found in the earth and the mud, yet it is not defiled by the earth. Similarly, though Mary was born among humans, she is a thornless golden flower, unstained by sin, set apart and sanctified. “The Most High has sanctified His dwelling place.” (Psalm 45:4) ✍🏾The Eternal Medicine If a flower provides medicine, it is only a temporary remedy that cures temporary illnesses. But our Lady, the Living Flower, provides an eternal medicine — Christ Himself — which, once received, never needs to be repeated. A flower reproduces its seeds through its male and female parts. The male part, when mature, fertilizes the female part of the same flower, producing new flowers — a natural process called self-pollination. Alternatively, male pollen can be transferred to the female part of another flower through bees, birds, humans, or the wind, a process known as cross-pollination. But our Blessed Lady conceived and bore the Son of God without any male seed, through the work of the Holy Spirit. Thus, she surpasses all other flowers, as the Scriptures praise: “Aaron’s rod budded without being planted or watered; you are like her.” (Wudase Mariam Ze ehud) May the name of the Holy God be praised forever and ever in every tongue that He has created, today and always. May the blessings of God's mother, the virgin, and the cross be upon us. Amen. © John's Repentance Reach out to us on our social media platforms and share it with your friends:https://linktr.ee/johnsrepentance