St. Peter (notice the tiara!)MY MARIAN REFLECTION FOR TODAY
Notice the change of title. I thought 'reflection' is a better word than 'thoughts'! Anyway, today's reflection is on Message # 7 of the MMP Blue Book titled "Only and Always Mother".
As I look over the words of Our Lady, they speak of how Motherly She is with us. We don't realize how She is working in the background of our lives, supplying all our needs, temporal and spiritual. You say, "Well, it is God who gives us everything!" Yes, that is true, everything comes from the Holy Trinity, but the Almighty has chosen Our Lady to be "Dispenser of All Graces"! Pope St. Pius X calls Mary “the dispenser of all gifts, which Jesus has acquired for us by His death and His blood.” Pope Benedict XV declared: “All gifts which the Author of all good has deigned to communicate to the unhappy posterity of Adam, are, according to the loving resolve of His Divine Providence, dispensed by the hands of the Most Holy Virgin.” The same Pope calls Mary: “the mediatrix with God of all graces.”
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix." (#969).
So, let's keep in mind, and constantly thanking God and Our Blessed Mother, that Mary is always there for us, truly and only, always Mothering us!
Speaking of Mother, today's Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul can also remind us that the Church, led by the Pope, is our Mother too! She nourishes us with the Sacraments and leads us to Heaven. Obedience to the Church is obedience to the Will of God and our Gate to the Father's Kingdom. God Bless+
Roman Deacon
As I look over the words of Our Lady, they speak of how Motherly She is with us. We don't realize how She is working in the background of our lives, supplying all our needs, temporal and spiritual. You say, "Well, it is God who gives us everything!" Yes, that is true, everything comes from the Holy Trinity, but the Almighty has chosen Our Lady to be "Dispenser of All Graces"! Pope St. Pius X calls Mary “the dispenser of all gifts, which Jesus has acquired for us by His death and His blood.” Pope Benedict XV declared: “All gifts which the Author of all good has deigned to communicate to the unhappy posterity of Adam, are, according to the loving resolve of His Divine Providence, dispensed by the hands of the Most Holy Virgin.” The same Pope calls Mary: “the mediatrix with God of all graces.”
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix." (#969).
So, let's keep in mind, and constantly thanking God and Our Blessed Mother, that Mary is always there for us, truly and only, always Mothering us!
Speaking of Mother, today's Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul can also remind us that the Church, led by the Pope, is our Mother too! She nourishes us with the Sacraments and leads us to Heaven. Obedience to the Church is obedience to the Will of God and our Gate to the Father's Kingdom. God Bless+
Roman Deacon
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