Hello all, Happy feast day to all born, baptized and married today Happy feast day to all Deacons, Seminarians, Priests, Bishops, Monks, Nuns, Reverend Brothers in Christ Jesus and Sisters of Charity Happy feast day to all Christians Happy feast day to all Catholics Happy feast day to all who gave birth to their children at old age Happy feast day to all devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, especially all who recite Her Holy Rosary with true devotion Today, 8th of September marks the liturgical memorial of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Feast is also known as the “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” The Feast has been celebrated in the Church at least since the 8th Century. The Nativity of Mary, or the Birth of the Virgin is celebrated as a liturgical feast in the Roman Catholic calendar of Saints The Church’s calendar of Feast days observes the birthdays of only two Saints: • Saint John the Baptist (June 24), and • The Blessed Virgin Mary, “Mother of Jesus Christ” (Sept 8). Saint John the Baptist is considered especially because he was sanctified even before his birth. His birth to Elizabeth and Zachariah is foretold in the first chapter of the gospel of Saint Luke, and it is also recorded in (Luke 1:41) that Saint Elizabeth felt the infant John “leap in her womb” when Mary approached her soon after the Annunciation. The birth of Mary was also miraculous! Mary, like Saint John the Baptist was born to her parents at old age Mary was conceived without sin as a special grace because God had selected her to become the mother of His Son (our Lord Jesus Christ) This confirms the feast of her “Immaculate Conception” which is celebrated on December 8. The dogma of the “Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary”, though generally believed throughout the Church for many centuries, was formally declared in 1854 by Pope Blessed Pius IX (who was the 255th Bishop of Rome since the pontificate of Saint Peter the Apostle). There is nothing contained in Scripture about the birth of Mary or her parentage, though Joseph’s lineage is given in the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. The names of Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, appear in the apocryphal “Gospel of James”, a book dating from the 2nd Century AD, not part of the authentic canon of Scripture. According to this account, Joachim and Anna were also beyond the years of child-bearing, but prayed and fasted that God would grant their desire for a child. According to one tradition, the house in which Mary was born in Nazareth is the same one in which the Annunciation took place. By another tradition, the Annunciation site is beneath the Crusader church of Saint Anna in Jerusalem, under a 3rd Century oratory known as the “Gate of Mary”. In celebrating the nativity of Mary, Christians anticipate the Incarnation and birth of her Divine Son, and give honor to the mother of Our Lord and Savior. Today’s feast, like that of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, originated in Jerusalem. The Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary began in the fifth century as the feast of the basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est, now the Basilica of Saint Anne. In the seventh century, the feast was celebrated at Rome as the feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote of the day Saint Augustine connects Mary’s birth with Jesus’ saving work. He tells the earth to rejoice and shine forth in the light of her birth. “She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley. Through her birth the nature inherited from our first parents is changed.” If Jesus is the perfect expression of God’s love, Mary is the foreshadowing of that love. If Jesus has brought the fullness of salvation, Mary is its dawning. Birthday celebrations bring happiness to the celebrant as well as to family and friends. Next to the birth of Jesus, Mary’s birth offers the greatest possible happiness to the world. Each time we celebrate her birth we can confidently hope for an increase of peace in our hearts and in the world at large. -Words of Saint Augustine! ------------------------------------------------ Let us Pray: Father of mercy, give your people help and strength from heaven. The birth of the Virgin Mary’s Son was the dawn of our salvation. May this celebration of her birthday bring us closer to lasting peace. Grant this though our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit. Amen. ------------------------------------------------- Reflection of the day Thy birth, O Virgin Mother of God, heralded joy to all the world. For from thou hast risen the Sun of justice, Christ our God. Destroying the curse, He gave blessing; and damning death, He bestowed on us life everlasting. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. For from thou hast risen the Sun of justice, Christ our God. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Let us pray that by the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may in this group find the spiritual motivation to win our souls for God. Amen Feast of the Day, would be communicated to you as promptly and consistently as humanly possible, by Gods grace. May we all in this group and beyond this group, Christians and non Christians alike, Catholics and non Catholics alike, be saved from the fires of hell and lifted up into heaven after our stay here on this exile. Amen May our Lord Jesus Christ, through the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary and through Gods Divine Mercy strengthen our souls, open out the way for us all, and above all, intoxicate us with HIS love. Amen May Christ make us into blazing fires to enkindle the earth with the heavenly fire HE brought us. Amen Jesus we love you, all we have is yours, yours we are and yours we want to be, please do with us whatever you will. Amen Jesus, Mary we love you, please save our souls. Amen God bless you and grant your heart’s desire. Amen O Mary concieved without original sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. Amen Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with you Blessed are you among women And Blessed is the Fruit of your womb, Jesus ! Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen For a brief in Honouring Mary, please click the link below: youtube/watch?v=bGsP8ZYbNHY
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:20:34 +0000
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