Ah, Mary pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save
The soul that comes to-morrow
Before the God that gave!
Since each was born of woman,
For each at utter need —
True comrade and true foeman —
Madonna, intercede!
Rudyard Kipling
Mary Mother of God
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Our Lady, who served God by allowing Christ to come into the world through her, has been given a special mission in the economy of salvation. And that is a mission of nurturing and correction which is the nature of motherhood. Over the last 500 years or so she has made various appearances to this regard mainly having to do with the waywardness of the Catholic Church itself. Today, on Return to Tradition Anthony Stine discusses Our Lady of Good Success or more correctly Our Lady of Purification, i.e., purification of the Church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwjQSkHvPo&t=4s
“….Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope…”
We take nothing away from God by recognizing the channel of Grace given to us here below.
Prayers for the victims and wounded in the New Orleans attack. 10 dead, 30 injured. Queen of Heaven, help them.
https://youtu.be/Q12DaYjm42Q?si=zaxpkzHX38tMVq1J
What a way to begin a year. More on this as it develops.
Oh dear- prayers for the victims. Prayers the truth is told…
Not to worry, folks. This from one of the Fox News feeds:
“The White House said President Joe Biden has been briefed.”
We can all relax now.
/sarc off
An “explosive device” was mentioned by the FBI asst. who is assigned to the case. What type and where was it’s destination? At 11:00 AM they will hold another presser.
“Gabriel used careful and prudent language when he announced His birth. He did not speak of “what will be born in you” to avoid the impression that a body would be introduced into [the Blessed Virgin’s] womb from outside; he spoke of “what will be born from you,” so that we might know by faith that her child originated within her and from her.
By taking our nature and offering it in sacrifice, the Word was to destroy it completely and then invest it with his own nature, and so prompt the Apostle to say: This corruptible body must put on incorruption; this mortal body must put on immortality.
This was not done in outward show only, as some have imagined. This is not so. Our Saviour truly became man, and from this has followed the salvation of man as a whole. Our salvation is in no way fictitious, nor does it apply only to the body. The salvation of the whole man, that is, of soul and body, has really been achieved in the Word himself.” —S. Athanasius, Letter , Office of Readings, Liturgy of the Hours, for Dec. 31st, 2024