"When
the most holy Virgin was born, the whole world was made
radiant;
blessed
is the branch and blessed
is
the stem which bore such holy
fruit."
Today's Liturgy of the
Hours
FEAST of the NATIVITY
of
the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
September 8
"This radiant and manifest coming of God to men
most certainly needed a joyful prelude to introduce the great gift of salvation
to us.
The present festival, the birth of the Mother of
God, is the prelude,
while the final act is the foreordained union of the
Word with flesh. Today the Virgin is born, tended and formed, and prepared for
her role as Mother of God,
who is the universal King of the ages."
St Andrew of Crete, bishop - Oratio 1: PG
97
“Another woman is now given thee in place of the first,
a prudent
and humble Eve instead of the
proud and foolish one,
an Eve
who shall offer thee, not the
tree of death but the
Bread
of
Life, and who shall yield thee,
not the poisoned fruit
of bitterness
but
the delicious fruit of immortality.
Change
thou, therefore, the wicked words of self-excuse into
the voice of praise and
thanksgiving, and say
to the Lord,
‘The
woman whom Thou gavest me, gave
me of the
tree
of life and I
did eat; and it has become in my mouth sweeter
than honey,
because
in it Thou hast given me life.’
Behold here the purpose for which the
Angel was sent from God
to the Virgin. O Virgin, worthy
of all admiration, deserving of
all honour!
O most wonderful of women and
venerable over
all.”
St Bernard of Clairvaux
Death through Eve, life through
Mary." ~ Saint Jerome
"The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of
universal joy, because through
the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the
first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy."
"We never give more
honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour
her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a
way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus,
her Son. ... She is an echo of God, speaking and repeating
only God.
If you say "Mary," she says "God."
Saint Louis Marie de
Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin,
#94
Click
here: Nativity of the BVM - YouTube (song +images - lovely! - 2 mins)
Click
here: The Birth of Mary - YouTube (Commentary + images - 2 mins)
Mary, mother of the Bread of
Life, pray for
us!
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