Mary's memory takes her back many years
to her tiny child taking His first steps, wobbling and falling in Nazareth.

She is there beside Him, holding her breath, longing to put out her hands to steady Him, to prevent a fall, but she lets Him go alone, the little child, who must learn to walk on His own feet.

Now as then she is silent; she holds back her hands as she did then, His will is her will. It was for this hour that she gave Him to the world. So, her Son goes on to do His Father's will. The Father so loved the world, that He gave up His only Son to save it"