Jesus had entrusted Mary and John to each other - with John representing all of humanity. The appropriate response to this entrustment is summarized in the subsequent text: "And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home." (John 9:27). This does not only mean bringing Mary into our physical home, but also, more importantly, letting her into our inner and spiritual home.
"... entrusting is the response to a person's love, and in particular to the love of a mother."
John Paul II describes it as: "Entrusting himself to Mary in a filial manner, the Christian. like the Apostle John, "welcomes" the Mother of Christ "into his own home" and her into everything that makes up his inner life, that is to say into his human and Christian "I": he "took her into his own home."
In so doing, Jesus brings us "closer to Himself by giving us to the one who is closest to Him, the same one who directs everything to Him, 'Do whatever He tells you'."
"... entrusting is the response to a person's love, and in particular to the love of a mother."
John Paul II describes it as: "Entrusting himself to Mary in a filial manner, the Christian. like the Apostle John, "welcomes" the Mother of Christ "into his own home" and her into everything that makes up his inner life, that is to say into his human and Christian "I": he "took her into his own home."
In so doing, Jesus brings us "closer to Himself by giving us to the one who is closest to Him, the same one who directs everything to Him, 'Do whatever He tells you'."
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