On this great Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady, I first give thanks to God, for the gift of Mary. And, of course, to Our Lady for her “yes” to do the will of God and to bring Jesus to us. She still does the same today. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday dear Mary! And happy birthday to my little daughter who turns 3 today. We will be crowning Mary's statue and my daughter with flower crowns and presenting Mary with a piece of my daughter's birthday cake.
One French writer on writing of Mary described her as... '..younger than sin'. Which reflects Saint Paul's description of Jesus as, 'A man like us in all things but sin'. Mary, being the New Ark of the Covenant and a Living Temple of the Messiah, the Lamb of God was herself sinless as fitting and hence was, 'Younger than sin,' in that she harks back to the Garden of Eden before the Fall. I happened to look out the window there and saw a young mother going past playing with her small son and laughing. To me the mother looked like such little child herself it kind of takes my breath away. It causes me to look twice in kind of doubt. As it is with all parents these days. 'Can such children themselves have children?' Which just goes to show what an old out of touch fogy I have become. But Mary herself according to the Traditions of her culture and the accounts of the mystics would have been by our standards very,very much a child herself....although in them far off times people matured so quickly. I look at the young with children now and think to myself how very fitting that people should have children, in my terms so very young, relate themselves tot eh very young? God, I think to myself when I see this has arranged all things so very, very well. But in the case of Mary, who herself was younger than sin and who gave birth to the Lamb of God did things so superbly well I suspect He caused even the Highest angels to gasp in awe. As in did the angel Gabriel showed when he gasped in admiration as he said and bowed his head, 'Hail full of Grace!' I love these Marian Feasts so much especially at Mass. I can I am sure hear the angels doing a jig up there in step, jumping with joy. Jumping with joy as did the Lamb of God in His Mothers Womb as He regarded His Immaculate Mother and considered her virtues. But you know the 8th of September is not really her birthday..according to the mystics. I'd love to see some future Pope fix this. Not that it matters so much, but still it would be nice to her children gets her real birthday right. Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord, the gift of heavenly grace, that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin may bring deeper peace to those for whom the birth of her Son was the dawning of salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Happy Birthday Holy Mother! Our Legion of Mary celebrated with a birthday cake after Mass this morning. We usually include Parishoners, but with Covid, we had to keep it smaller this year.
Bizarre talk by Pope Francis to a Marian COnference in Rome on Our Lady's birthday: Makes her seem like some social activist warrior. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/...essage-25th-mariological-marian-congress.html Mother of forgotten The Pope noted that true joy which comes from the Lord always makes space in our hearts for those who are forgotten by society. “Mary,” he said, “in the beauty of the evangelical path and service to the common good of humanity and the planet, always teaches us to listen to these voices, and she herself gives voice to the voiceless, to ‘give birth to a new world’.” The Pope recalled the 60-plus years of service of the Pontifical Marian Academy in coordinating Marian studies across the world through Mariological conferences. These events, he said, offer a witness to how Mariology acts as a platform for dialogue between cultures, one which is able to nourish fraternity and peace.
