Mary, our Mother
Thursday, 8th September, is the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady; Her birthday.
Take time today to spend time with Mary whom we meet in the gospels: a true disciple, a model of faith and our Mother in the Church.
Mary is found principally in Luke’s infancy narrative. She is the one favoured by God (1:28,30); the Holy Spirit will overshadow her to conceive him who will be called the Son of God (1:35); she is the obedient servant of the Lord (1:38). Elizabeth calls her ‘the mother of my Lord’ (1:43), and declares her blessed because o
f what God has done for her (1:42) and because of her faith that the word spoken to her would come to fulfillment (1:45). Mary rejoices in God, her Saviour: she acknowledges the greatness of what God has done for her, his lowly servant, and predicts that all generations will call her blessed (1:48). In her joy, Mary’s faith did not include a clear understanding of all the events, especially of the sorrows that lay ahead, but she treasured those events and pondered over them in her heart seeking to penetrate their meaning (2:19, 51).
Read more about Our Lady and the very special place she has in our faith and in our Church:
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/mary-our-mother
