Mary is called the Mother of God because she is the “mother of the divine redeemer.” She conceived, brought forth and nourished the Son of God here on earth. While she is subordinate to her Son, she is greater than all the saints.
Mary has a unique role to play in our history of salvation. Her consent without hesitation to accept God’s Will at the Annunciation has had a salutary influence on the whole human family. She brought Life to the whole human family. Since she is the Mother of the Son of God, Mother of the Church and our Mother who brings us to her Son, it is most fitting that we honor her in a special way.
Today, is an appropriate day to honor Mary as she stands first among all the saints, and brings forth the Great Peacemaker to the human family.
Blessing
Lord, Mary’s child, make us as a human family an instrument of your peace:
- Where there is hatred, let us sow love.
- Where there is injury, pardon.
- Where there is doubt, faith.
- Where there is darkness, light.
- Where there is sadness, joy.
- Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
- To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
- For it is giving that we receive.
- It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
- And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
