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Volume V, Issue 25, September 20, 2008
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "The Mother of Christ Entered into the Passion of Her Son through Her Compassion" by Pope Benedict XVI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "The Mother of Christ Entered into the Passion of Her Son through Her Compassion" by Pope Benedict XVI Eucharistic Celebration for the Sick – Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI Esplanade in front of the Basilica of Notre-Dame du Rosaire, Lourdes, Sept. 15, 2008 Dear Brothers in the episcopate and the priesthood, Yesterday we celebrated the Cross of Christ, the instrument of our salvation, which reveals the mercy of our God in all its fullness. The Cross is truly the place where God’s compassion for our world is perfectly manifested. Today, as we celebrate the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, we contemplate Mary sharing her Son’s compassion for sinners. As Saint Bernard declares, the Mother of Christ entered into the Passion of her Son through her compassion (cf. Homily for Sunday in the Octave of the Assumption). At the foot of the Cross, the prophecy of Simeon is fulfilled: her mother’s heart is pierced through (cf. Lk 2:35) by the torment inflicted on the Innocent One born of her flesh. Just as Jesus cried (cf. Jn 11:35), so too Mary certainly cried over the tortured body of her Son. Her self-restraint, however, prevents us from plumbing the depths of her grief; the full extent of her suffering is merely suggested by the traditional symbol of the seven swords. As in the case of her Son Jesus, one might say that she too was led to perfection through this suffering (cf. Heb 2:10), so as to make her capable of receiving the new spiritual mission that her Son entrusts to her immediately before "giving up his spirit" (cf. Jn 19:30): that of becoming the mother of Christ in his members. In that hour, through the figure of the beloved disciple, Jesus presents each of his disciples to his Mother when he says to her: "Behold your son" (cf. Jn 19:26-27). http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1458 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Mary Co-redemptrix and the Fifth Marian Dogma: Perennial Christian Truth; Contemporary Call of the Lady of All Nations by Mark Miravalle The following address was given May 31, 2008, at a conference in Amsterdam. Mary Co-redemptrix and the Fifth Marian Dogma: We begin with the words of Pope John Paul II, with a phrase pregnant in meaning. He tells us that "Mary’s role as Co-redemptrix did not cease with the glorification of her Son" (1). These words have a theological meaning, but also a meaning for us in this present critical moment of human history. This is not simply an ivory tower truth. It is a truth that calls each one of us to a conviction of heart for ourselves, and also for all humanity. It is important to note and to understand from the beginning that what Our Lady says in the messages of Amsterdam is true: this is not a new doctrine, but these are really old ideas that she is bringing us to anew. It is therefore important that we briefly go back in history, back through the rich Tradition of our Catholic faith—the assurance of popes, of saints, of mystics, and of the sensus fidelium, the common people—so that we can understand how deeply this truth of Marian coredemption is part of us, part of our heritage. Now is the time for the climax, not the genesis, of the doctrine of Mary Co-redemptrix. http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1457 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The Mother of God, Part I by Fr. Manfred Hauke The following article is an excerpt from a chapter in the recently published Marian anthology, Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons, Seat of Wisdom Books, A Division of Queenship, 2008. Fifteen international Mariology experts contributed to the text. The book features a foreword by Archbishop Raymond L. Burke and has 17 chapters divided into four parts: 1. Mary in Scripture and the Early Church; 2. Marian Dogma; 3. Marian Doctrine; and 4. Marian Liturgy and Devotion. The book is now available from Queenship Publications. To obtain a copy, visit queenship.org. Visit books.google.com and search on "Mariology: A Guide" to view the book in its entirety, or simply click here. The Divine Maternity as a Constituent of the "Fundamental Principle" in Mariology The Virgin Mary … is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and Mother of the Redeemer. Redeemed by reason of the merits of her son and united to him by a close and indissoluble tie, she is endowed with the high office and dignity of being the Mother of the Son of God, by which account she is also the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit. Because of this gift of sublime grace she far surpasses all creatures, both in heaven and on earth (1). These words, taken from the Second Vatican Council, show very well the central importance of Mary as the Mother of God. The most relevant Marian dogma, the divine maternity, is essentially linked to the most important Christological dogma, the hypostatic union: in the person, or hypostasis, of the eternal Son of God are united the divine and the human nature of Christ. The definition of the title Theotókos (God-bearer) at the Council of Ephesus (431) underlines the unity of the two natures of Christ in the same personal subject: as Jesus Christ is one person, the Son of God who assumed a human nature from the Virgin Mary, she must be the Mother of God. Obviously Mary does not generate God in his divinity, but she generates the Son of God in his humanity, because he takes his human nature from her. For this reason her dignity is above that of the whole of creation. She is truly "Mother of God." http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1456 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "Be at Peace in the Sufferings that I Send" by "Anne," a Lay Apostle Serving in Clarity: A Guide for Lay Apostles of Jesus Christ the Returning King is the latest writing by "Anne," a lay apostle. local ordinary, Bishop Leo O’Reilly, for the distribution of messages which she receives from Jesus, God the Father, Our Blessed Mother, the angels and saints (see article, "Discernment of Lay Apostolate of Jesus Christ the Returning King," Marian Private Revelation section). In Part I of Serving in Clarity, the messages of Jesus describe the "new time" and the responsibility of the Lay Apostolate of Jesus in bringing forth this time through their generous service and docility to the extraordinary graces that Jesus makes available at the present time of human history. August 7, 2006 Jesus Be at peace in the sufferings that I send. My apostles in this time will carry crosses with Me, in all resignation. Through your docile acceptance of the cross, I will draw two things. One, I will make you a saint. Two, I will flow rich and constant graces through you into the world. You will be allowed to glimpse the fruit of your suffering at times. This will be a gift from Me, this knowledge of the connection between your offering and the fruits I send to the world. You will know that the peace and conversion of your family members and loved ones is connected to the crosses you carry in quietness. As grace flows into the world, through your souls and homes, those around you will begin to become holy, also. Their holiness will assist you and your holiness will continue to assist them and between us all we will have God’s kingdom on earth. This is a summary of the new time and this time now is the beginning of the new time. The new time begins with a birth and that is the birth of great unity between God and man. Most births are joyous, it is true, but birth can also include some apprehension because birth is a beginning, something new. So it is with this time. Enhanced unity between God and His created ones is different in this time. It is new. There are always those saints who align their will to Mine and walk with Me but in this new time, most souls will live this way. We are not there yet, as you know, but we begin and we begin with you, My beloved apostles. http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1455 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Akita's "Most Important Message" by Fr. Thomas Teiji Yasuda S.V.D. The final weeping of the statue of the Lady of All Nations at Akita took place on September 15, 1981, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. On September 28, 1981, the fourth supernaturally revealed message was given to Sr. Agnes. This message was conveyed by the guardian angel of Sr. Agnes, which took place in the context of a vision of a "majestic Bible" with a particular verse emphasized. The following is the account and commentary of the fourth Akita message by the spiritual director of Sr. Agnes, Fr. Thomas Yasuda. The most important message among the various Divine messages in Akita is the one imparted by the angel to Sr. Agnes on the 28th of September of 1981. Even the three previous Marian messages were precursor to this last manifestation which occurred 13 days after the final weeping of the statue. http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1454 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Octobri Mense - Encyclical on the Rosary by Pope Leo XIII To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries having Grace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Greeting and Apostolic Benediction. 1. At the coming of the month of October, dedicated and consecrated as it is to the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, we recall with satisfaction the instant exhortations which in preceding years We addressed to you, venerable brethren, desiring, as We did, that the faithful, urged by your authority and by your zeal, should redouble their piety towards the august Mother of God, the mighty helper of Christians, and should pray to her throughout the month, invoking her by that most holy rite of the Rosary which the Church, especially in the passage of difficult times, has ever used for the accomplishment of all desires. http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1453 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The Rosary and the Family by Mark Miravalle "Dear Children! You have helped me along by your prayers to realize my plans. Keep on praying that my plan may be completely realized. I request the families of the parish to pray the Family Rosary. Thank you for having responded to my call" (Our Lady of Medjugorje, September 27, 1984). The call to pray the Rosary is the principal form of prayer requested by the Blessed Mother, not only in the message of Medjugorje but in the overall Marian message to the modern world. I want to discuss this favored Marian prayer under three categories. First of all, I will discuss briefly the Rosary in this general Marian call to the modern world. Secondly, I will discuss a little bit of the origins, the history, and the nature of the Rosary. What is this prayer of the Rosary that Our Lady has called us to so regularly? Thirdly, and most importantly for our purposes, I want to show how these two come together in the crucial Marian call to pray the Family Rosary. This is especially true in reading some of the recent interviews of the visionaries. They present the Rosary, especially the family praying of the Rosary, right after the general call to prayer and fasting as the most efficacious means of repelling Satan and of nurturing spiritual growth. It is absolutely fundamental. http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1452 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "All the Glory of the King's Daughter is Within" by St. John Eudes Infinite goodness compels God the Holy Spirit to disclose to us the inestimable treasures hidden in the marvelous Heart of Mary and to proclaim them through Sacred Scripture, the inspired word of God. The first significant text that I shall point out is taken from the 44th Psalm: "All the glory of the king’s daughter is within" (Ps. 44:14), where the Holy Spirit reveals that the admirable Heart of Mary is a source of benefactions without number and of every kind. http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1451 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Novena for the Fifth Marian Dogma "Day of Dialogue" : March 25, 2010Mother of All Peoples |
The Moral Compass or The Golden Compass?Michael D. O’Brien |
Jesus Speaks: "My Presence in Your Day"Anne a Lay Apostle |
"You Would Become Co-redemptrix"Mark Miravalle |
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the CrossJanie Garza |
Faith in the EucharistSaint Peter Julian Eymard |
Is the Time Ripe for a 5th Marian Dogma? Vatican Forum to Host Discussion on Feast of AnnunciationRobert Moynihan |
Latest Messages Given in Medjugorje by Our LadyOur Lady of Medjugorje |
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