Friday, September 12, 2014

The Most Holy Name of Mary

Two great names in our Catholic tradition: Jesus and Mary. Both have Memorials dedicated to them. Today is Mary's. George M. Cohan called Mary "A Grand Old Name", and surely it is. There is a power to it that we invoke daily when we ask her to pray for us "now and at the hour of our death." She has shown us the way to Jesus: by submitting her will to God's and has made frequent "visits" back to us through her many apparitions to the "lowly" reminding us to keep faithful to prayer, penance and the teachings of her Son. To her "do we cry, poor banished children of Eve, to her do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears." "Never was it known that anyone who fled to her was left unaided." In the compelling words of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, "In dangers, in straits, in perplexity, call upon Mary. Let her name be always in your mouth and in your heart." May we focus on her throughout this day, simply and lovingly repeating her name at every spare moment.
Bro. Rene

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