Even Mary’s faith is a “journeying” faith, a faith that is repeatedly shrouded in darkness and has to mature by persevering through the darkness. Mary does not understand Jesus’s saying, but she keeps it in her heart and allows it to gradually come to maturity there.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Jesus of Nazareth: the Infancy Narratives

Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 125

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