THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY
3. Mary's Birthday.
However, there is an exception to this general rule. The Church herself admits it. She who usually never cares for the earthly birthday of her sons, one day by an extraordinary exception puts on her garments of joy and gives signs of great joy and of inexpressible tenderness. She has established a special feast to celebrate the birthday of Our Heavenly Mother. The woman predestined to be the Mother of God appears on this earth with a soul holy and immaculate, with the same purity and sanctity that She had when She sprang from the hands of God. Her earthly life is a life of grace, a heavenly life, a divine life. That is why the Church in her liturgy rejoices and bids us all rejoice: Let us with great joy celebrate the Nativity of the most Holy Virgin Mary, because Her birth has filled with joy the whole universe.
Rejoice, you also, and congratulate your beloved Mother, the only One who with Her earthly life brings the seed of a life of grace for Herself and for the rest of mankind.
[From 'Marian Meditation' Book]
However, there is an exception to this general rule. The Church herself admits it. She who usually never cares for the earthly birthday of her sons, one day by an extraordinary exception puts on her garments of joy and gives signs of great joy and of inexpressible tenderness. She has established a special feast to celebrate the birthday of Our Heavenly Mother. The woman predestined to be the Mother of God appears on this earth with a soul holy and immaculate, with the same purity and sanctity that She had when She sprang from the hands of God. Her earthly life is a life of grace, a heavenly life, a divine life. That is why the Church in her liturgy rejoices and bids us all rejoice: Let us with great joy celebrate the Nativity of the most Holy Virgin Mary, because Her birth has filled with joy the whole universe.
Rejoice, you also, and congratulate your beloved Mother, the only One who with Her earthly life brings the seed of a life of grace for Herself and for the rest of mankind.
[From 'Marian Meditation' Book]
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