Feast of Queenship of Mary
August 22
“When she became Mother of the Creator,
she truly became Queen of every
creature.”~ St. John Damascene
Carlo
Crivelli
"The
Magnificat expresses Mary's spirituality, and there is nothing
greater
than this
spirituality
for helping us to experience the mystery
of
the Eucharist. The
Eucharist has
been
given to us so that our life,
like
that of Mary, may become completely a Magnificat!
... let us listen
to
Mary
Most Holy, in whom the mystery of the Eucharist appears,
more
than in
anyone
else, as a mystery of light. Gazing upon Mary,
we
come to know the
transforming
power present in the Eucharist.
In
her we see the world renewed in love."
(Ecclesia
de Eucharistia 58,
62)
More
on the Queenship of Mary...
Pius XII
established this feast in 1954. But Mary’s queenship has roots in Scripture. At
the Annunciation, Gabriel announced that Mary’s Son would receive the throne of
David and rule forever. At the Visitation, Elizabeth
In the
fourth century St. Ephrem called Mary “Lady” and “Queen” and Church fathers and
doctors continued to use the title. Hymns of the eleventh to thirteenth
centuries address Mary as queen: “Hail, Holy Queen,” “Hail, Queen of Heaven,”
“Queen of Heaven.” The Dominican rosary and the Franciscan crown as well as
numerous invocations in Mary’s litany celebrate her queenship.
The
feast is a logical follow-up to the Assumption and is
now celebrated on the octave day of that feast. In
his encyclical To the Queen of Heaven, Pius XII points out that Mary
deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely
associated as the New Eve with Jesus’ redemptive work, because of her preeminent
perfection and because of her intercessory power.
Comment:
AsSt. Paul
As
Quote:
“Let the entire body of the faithful pour forth persevering prayer to the Mother of God and Mother of men. Let them implore that she who aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers may now, exalted as she is in heaven above all the saints and angels, intercede with her Son in the fellowship of all the saints. May she do so until all the peoples of the human family, whether they are honored with the name of Christian or whether they still do not know their Savior, are happily gathered together in peace and harmony into the one People of God, for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 69).
“Let the entire body of the faithful pour forth persevering prayer to the Mother of God and Mother of men. Let them implore that she who aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers may now, exalted as she is in heaven above all the saints and angels, intercede with her Son in the fellowship of all the saints. May she do so until all the peoples of the human family, whether they are honored with the name of Christian or whether they still do not know their Savior, are happily gathered together in peace and harmony into the one People of God, for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 69).
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