{"id":25215,"date":"2010-01-01T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/solemnity-of-the-holy-mother-o\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:00:15","slug":"solemnity-of-the-holy-mother-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/solemnity-of-the-holy-mother-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Mother<\/a><\/p>\n

God our Father, may we always profit by the prayers of the
\nVirgin Mother Mary, for You bring us life and salvation through Jesus Christ
\nher Son who lives and regins with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
\nand ever.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

from Catechism of the Catholic:<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Called in the Gospels “the Mother of
\nJesus,” Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and
\neven before the birth of her son, as “the mother of my Lord.” In
\nfact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became
\nher Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father’s eternal Son,
\nthe second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is
\ntruly “Mother of God.” (495).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

from the Directory on Popular and the
\nLiturgy<\/i>: The Solemnity of the Holy Mother of God:<\/b><\/p>\n

On New Year’s Day, the octave
\nday of Christmas, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Holy Mother of
\nGod. The divine and virginal motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a
\nsingular salvific event: for Our Lady it was the foretaste and cause of her
\nextraordinary glory; for us it is a source of grace and salvation because
\n“through her we have received the Author of life.”<\/p>\n

The solemnity of the 1
\nJanuary, an eminently Marian feast, presents an excellent opportunity for
\nliturgical piety to encounter popular piety: the first celebrates this event in
\na manner proper to it; the second, when duly catechised, lends joy and
\nhappiness to the various expressions of praise offered to Our Lady on the birth
\nof her divine Son, to deepen our understanding of many prayers, beginning with
\nthat which says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners”.<\/p>\n

In
\nthe West, 1 January is an inaugural day marking the beginning of the civil
\nyear. The faithful are also involved in the celebrations for the beginning of
\nthe new year and exchange “new year” greetings. However, they should
\ntry to lend a Christian understanding to this custom making of these greetings
\nan expression of popular piety. The faithful, naturally, realize that the
\n“new year” is placed under the patronage of the Lord, and in
\nexchanging new year greetings they implicitly and explicitly place the New Year
\nunder the Lord’s dominion, since to him belongs all time (cf. Ap 1, 8; 22,13)<\/p>\n

A
\nconnection between this consciousness and the popular custom of singing the Veni
\nCreator Spiritus can easily be made so that on 1 January the faithful can pray
\nthat the Spirit may direct their thoughts and actions, and those of the
\ncommunity during the course of the year.+New year greetings also include an
\nexpression of hope for a peaceful New Year. This has profound biblical,
\nChristological and incarnational origins. The “quality of peace” has
\nalways been invoked throughout history by all men, and especially during violent
\nand destructive times of war.<\/p>\n

The Holy See shares the profound aspirations of
\nman for peace. Since 1967, 1 January has been designated “world day for
\npeace”. Popular piety has not been oblivious to this initiative of the
\nHoly See. In the light of the new born Prince of Peace, it reserves this day
\nfor intense prayer for peace, education towards peace and those value
\ninextricably linked with it, such as liberty, fraternal solidarity, the dignity
\nof the human person, respect for nature, the right to work, the sacredness of
\nhuman life, and the denunciation of injustices which trouble the conscience of
\nman and threaten peace. (115-117)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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God our Father, may we always profit by the prayers of the Virgin Mother Mary, for You bring us life and salvation through Jesus Christ her Son who lives and regins with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. from Catechism of the Catholic: Called in the Gospels “the Mother of … Continue reading Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[32088,1783],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}