Rebecca is a figure of the Virgin Mary
Remember the story of Jacob and Esau? Esau sold his birth right in exchange for a dish of lentils. When Isaac was elderly, Rebecca wanted to obtain the paternal blessing for her son Jacob. Isaac was now blind. Rebecca dressed her son Jacob in his brother’s clothes and Jacob received the blessing.
Well, Rebecca is a figure of the Virgin Mary: Mary loves each one of us like Rebecca loved Jacob. She dresses us in the clothes of her first born, Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary is not the source of God’s grace, but her pure heart, burning with the love of God and united to the heart of Christ, desires our salvation. She begs her Son Jesus Christ to dress us in the “cloak of salvation,” which is God’s grace. This is why, like Saint John, we can take Mary into our home. She will be an even better mother to us than Rebecca was to Jacob.
Hervé Marie Catta
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