Mary, Mother of Victory of the Emigrants

The Gospels explain Mother Mary as the mother of Emigrants too. She was asked by the Lord to move from one place to another (Mt. 2: 13-15; 20-23; Lk. 1:39; 2:4-5; 2:39-40). She searched for the will of God. She traveled as God wanted. The migration was with various purposes but always for doing the will of God. However she was traveling with her husband Joseph and son Jesus. She became a migrant in various places. The situations were not easy: sometimes difficult, painful, humiliating and hard. But with Joseph and Jesus she did that. In one way we can say, Mary is the Mother of Victory in doing the will of God, also in traveling and being an emigrant; she is thus the Mother of Victory of the Emigrants.

We are emigrants; emigrants in our own country; move from one place to another. Are we able to find God’s will in this traveling? If we are not able to find God’s will and this traveling as God’s will, we will not be able to happy and satisfied migrants. The mission of the Church also happens through migration. If the Apostles remained only in Jerusalem, the Church would have been only a reality of Jerusalem. It is spread in the whole world, because of Migration. Therefore let us be happy migrants; let us be aware of our mission as migrants; let us ask the intercession of Mother of Victory of Emigrants for seeking and finding the will of God.

Fr. Francis Eluvathingal