About Operation Loreto
Why Operation Loreto?
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The family is the antidote to all of the division, meanness, apoplexy that we see visible in American society today.
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph serves as a model of how to engender and communicate love among members of a nuclear family.
The Blessed mother and Joseph nurtured Jesus first as a baby, then as a boy, followed by his time as a teenager and young adult leading up to the moment he began his ministry. Jesus observed in the daily actions and behaviors of his mother and foster father, Joseph, the values of love, respect, tolerance, forgiveness and sacrifice.
Mary and Joseph dedicated themselves fully to the development of their son by creating an environment where God was center and the needs of the other were prominent, weighted more heavily, mothered more, or ranked higher over the needs of self.
The Holy family represents a “mini-church.” A framework whereby members of the family endeavor to serve God and support each other in word and deed.
Loreto: the commune where the home of Mary is located.
Why “Loreto,” specifically, as a name. Simply because Loreto represents the physical space where the Blessed Mother uttered her immortal and timeless fiat – “I will serve,” which combats the devil’s “I will not serve.” Mary knew that she existed to serve God, to serve her Son and to serve others. In a society in a world where God is too often deliberately forgotten or discarded, Loreto serves as a reminder and an example of the greatness of God’s love as manifest in the love demonstrated by Jesus, Mary and Joseph. It was in the physical space afforded by Mary’s childhood home where the Holy Family first partook in God’s salvific plan for all of mankind. By opening ourselves up to the love of the Father, by actively partaking in God’s plan for us, by subordinating our needs, our will to God’s will, we too, along with others, can replicate the love that emanated from the home in Loreto. We do this in our lives and the lives of those with whom we come in contact.
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