10 Things on the Holy Name of Mary Day (Sept. 12, 2015)

Last updated on: September 12, 2015 at 10:19 am by Kathryn Jean Lopez

10 Things on the Holy Name of Mary Day (Sept. 12, 2015) 2015-09-12T10:19:17-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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1. Peter Howard writes:

Today, the Church directs our attention to the importance of calling upon the holy name of “Mary” because her name points to her role in salvation history as the “ark of salvation”. It is fitting that Mary be called the “ark” of salvation as her name also stems from the feminine form of the Latin word for sea, mare. Just as all waters are contained in and distributed by the seas, so are all the graces of Christ contained in Mary and distributed by her to the world. Another significance of Mary’s connection with the seas is that the Church has found refuge in her as the “ark of salvation” in the midst of the stormy and destructive seas of the world.

The Most Holy Name of Mary, and her title, Mother of God, carved in Greek @MarysShrine https://t.co/SJT4o0VsXJ

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) September 12, 2015

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children. (Saint John Vianney)

— Cardinal Napier (@CardinalNapier) September 12, 2015

4. In the Liturgy of the Hours today, from Saint Athanasius:

God, the Word of the all-good Father, did not disregard the human race, his own creation, when it was sinking back into corruption, but rather by the offering of his own body he destroyed the death men had incurred, and by his teaching he corrected their negligence. So he restored by his power all that belongs to man’s estate.

Anyone can find confirmation of this from the Savior’s own disciples who spoke of him, for in their writings one reads: The charity of Christ constrains us as we judge that if one died on behalf of all, then all died; and he died for all in order that we may live no longer for ourselves but for him who died for us and rose from the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ. And again: We see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, that by God’s grace he might taste death for everyone. Then the writer goes on to show why it had to be God the Word and no other who became man: Indeed it was fitting that in bringing many sons to glory, God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should make perfect the one who leads them to salvation. By this he means that the task of bringing men back from the corruption into which they had fallen belonged to no other save God the Word who had made them in the beginning. Further, Scripture shows that the Word assumed a body for the purpose of offering it in sacrifice on behalf of other bodies like his own, for the writer continues: Since the children have blood and flesh in common, he likewise shared in them himself so that by his own death he might destroy the one who had power over death, that is, the devil, and might deliver those who all their life long were enslaved by fear of death.

For by the sacrifice of his own body he both put an end to the law that stood against us and made a new beginning of life for us by giving us the hope of resurrection. Hence Paul, the Christbearer, declares: As through a man came death, so through a man has come the resurrection of the dead. For as all died in Adam, so also in Christ all shall be made to live.

No longer, then, do we die as men condemned, but as men being raised even now, we await the general resurrection of all, which God, whose work and gift it is, will reveal at the appointed time.

5. Today’s Mass readings.

6. About Sunday’s Gospel, with Bishop Barron.

7. This is from a few days ago, but as needed today as ever: Listen to Jesus’ heart speak of wisdom. Monsignor John Essef will walk you through it. Listen here.

And if you want more to listen to:

IP#37 Fr. Peter John Cameron O.P. – Mysteries of the Virgin Mary on Inside the Pages: Stunning…simply stunning… http://t.co/ldySPb8vEh

— Kris McGregor (@KrisMcGregor) September 11, 2015

Delighted to find this @CathVoicesUSA brochure from @OSV at St. Peter's on the House side in DC pic.twitter.com/MK4UauRYCD

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) September 11, 2015

Buy the new book How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice here or here. Buy the brochure for your parish here.

O praise the Lord, all you nations, acclaim him all you peoples! Strong is his love for us; he is faithful for ever. #lauds

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) September 12, 2015

10. Please read this interview, buy this book, and pray for priests.

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