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The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
June 9, 2025
The Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we celebrate the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church! It is so fitting that on the day after Pentecost, we would pray to Our Lady as the Mother of the Church, that very Church that her Son entrusted to her from the Cross when He told St. John, "Behold your Mother!" And it is so clear that we need such a Mother!!
Here is a link to the paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Chruch in which this title is explained. Please read it! It helps so much to get the proper understanding of this title:
https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_9/paragraph_6_mary_-_mother_of_christ,_mother_of_the_church.html
Our Lady gave us only one message in which she spoke of herself as "Mother of the Church". Here it is:
June 2, 2016
"Dear children, as the Mother of the Church, as your mother, I am smiling as I look at you: how you are coming to me, how you are gathering around me, how you are seeking me. My comings among you are proof of how much Heaven loves you. They indicate to you the way to eternal life, to salvation.
My apostles, you who strive to have a pure heart and to have my Son in it, you are on the good way. You who are seeking my Son are seeking the good way. He left many signs of His love. He left hope. It is easy to find Him if you are ready for sacrifice and penance - if you have patience, mercy and love for your neighbors.
Many of my children do not see and do not hear because they do not want to. They do not accept my words and my works, yet through me, my Son calls everyone. His Spirit illuminates all of my children in the light of the Heavenly Father, in the unity of Heaven and Earth, in mutual love - because love invokes love and makes works more important than words.
Therefore, my apostles, pray for your Church, love it and do works of love. No matter how betrayed or wounded, it is here because it comes from the Heavenly Father. Pray for your shepherds so that in them you may see the greatness of the love of my Son. Thank you."
Our Lady is indeed the best of mothers!! I just love it that Our Lady is the Mother of the Church!! Today, spend time with her!! Let's give her our whole heart! As our Mother, and the Mother of the whole Church, She is so capable of helping us find our way to her Son!
Let us pray:
Most glorious Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, to you I entrust myself just as Jesus entrusted John to your care. Receive me as your spiritual child, and nurture me with your Son’s divine grace. Thank you for your “Yes” to the Father’s plan, for your life, and for your continuous “Yes” through time and eternity. May my “Yes” echo yours as I surrender fully to God’s plan. Mother Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.
(Prayer is from: https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/mary-mother-of-the-church-memorial/ )
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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