{"id":220198,"date":"2021-05-03T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcatholics.com\/3-ways-mary-is-the-perfect-first-responder\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:03:56","slug":"3-ways-mary-is-the-perfect-first-responder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcatholics.com\/3-ways-mary-is-the-perfect-first-responder\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Mary is the perfect First Responder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 Ways Mary is the perfect First Responder\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5y4a2A77Gjw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How can we see Mary as a first responder?<\/p>\n<p>We describe a faith first-responder as someone who is present to others on their terms. Who brings them the help and information they need. A first responder accompanies someone in their pain, on their journey, and as they need it.<\/p>\n<p>Each May, we celebrate Mary in a special way. She is the perfect May Queen, the bearer of Life Himself. But her life is marked by many messages. We&#8217;ll focus on three; her receptivity, her activity, and her love.<\/p>\n<p>We see this in the moments of the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the Crowning in Heaven.<br \/>\nMary is the perfect first-responder.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the main article from the May issue of the SmartCatholics Insider<\/p>\n<p>Join the free Catholic community at smartcatholics.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we see Mary as a first responder?<\/p>\n<p>We describe a faith first-responder as someone who is present to others on their terms. Who brings them the help and information they need. 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We&#8217;ll focus on three; her receptivity, her activity, and her love.<\/p>\n<p>We see this in the moments of the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the Crowning in Heaven.<br \/>\nMary is the perfect first-responder.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the main article from the May issue of the SmartCatholics Insider<\/p>\n<p>Join the free Catholic community at smartcatholics.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,121],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Ways Mary is the perfect First Responder - SmartCatholics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartcatholics.com\/3-ways-mary-is-the-perfect-first-responder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Ways Mary is the perfect First Responder - SmartCatholics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How can we see Mary as a first responder? 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