And he (angel Gabriel) came
to her (Mary) and said,
"Hail, full of grace,
the Lord is with you!" - Luke 1:28
"The Lord whom the Mother bears
and the Lord in the Host are
the same,
and this one Lord has only one thought:
to give Himself away, to share His
very substance,
in an infinite manner.
The Mother understood this from the beginning
and never bore anything in mind
except giving the Son to the world."
Adrienne von Speyr
Feast of the Maternity of
Mary (Trad)
October 11
"The blessing
of God to humanity is fulfilled in Mary. The Mother of the
Redeemer precedes us continually and confirms us in the faith, in the vocation
and in the mission. With her example of humility and of availability to
the will of God, she helps us to translate our faith in a joyful announcement
of the gospel without frontiers.
In this way our
mission will be fruitful, because it is modeled on the maternity of Mary.
To her we entrust our itinerary of faith, the desires of our heart, our
necessities, the needs of the whole world, especially the hunger and the thirst
for justice and peace; and we invoke her all together." ~ Pope Francis, Jan 1, 2014 -
Feast of the Mother of God
"If
anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is Mother of God, he is outside the
divine order. If anyone shall say that Christ flowed through the Virgin as
through a channel, and was not formed in her in a fashion both divine and human
. . . such a one too is an atheist. If anyone shall say that (in the case of
Christ) first a man was made and that afterwards God entered into Him - he is
subject to damnation." ~ Saint
Gregory Nazianzen, Doctor of the Church
Holy Mary,
Mother of God, pray for us now
and at the
hour of our death!
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