He keeps them in His Heart as a precious treasure and guards them as the apple of His eye, according to the divine words: "The alms of a man is as signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye" (Sir 17:18), which means, "As a man having a purse full of diamonds would guard each stone jealously, so does God keep the alms given or the favor shown to a poor man, even if it were only a glass of water. That’s what ponder means, and what the Greek word for ponder implies. Second, her thoughts conferred about them. It turned out e,Jesus’ father and mother were speechless with surprise at these words. The shepherds returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. First, she took note of important things and put them in a safe place her heart. Luke 2:19,34-35,51 Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself. In the second place, Mary knew that the love of her Son Jesus Christ for mankind is so great that He counts every hair of their heads: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered" (Lk 12:7) all their thoughts, all their steps: "Thou indeed hast numbered my steps" (Job 14:16) and that He takes into account the least action performed for love of Him, in order to reward each deed with an eternal glory. Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart ( Luke 2:19 ). In the first place, Our Lady knew that no part of the Savior’s life could be termed small, that everything in Him was great, divine and admirable and that each one of His footsteps, each breath, each flutter of his eyelids, each very least thought of His, deserved the eternal adoration of angels and men. The first time Scripture tells us that Mary treasured in her heart something about Jesus was after the shepherds came to worship her Son in the stable. She kept them, not in part, but entirely, omnia.
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