September 8, 2023

Happy Birthday, Blessed Mother Mary!

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 loved ones 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, because of the coming of our Lord.

We thank God for the gift of life, as we honor both our Blessed Mother and our Lord Jesus through our love for them and for one another. (source: franciscanmedia.org)

Your Nativity, O Virgin Mother of God, was the herald of joy to the whole world; since from you arose the Sun of Justice, Christ our God, who, destroying the curse, bestowed the blessing, and confounding death, rewarded us with life everlasting.

V. Let us celebrate with joy the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

R. That she may intercede for us with Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us pray:

Grant to us your servants, we beseech you, O Lord, the gift of Your heavenly grace, that as our salvation was begun in the child-bearing of the Blessed Virgin, so from this solemn festival of her Nativity may we obtain an increase of peace. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Amen. americaneedsfatima.org