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Our Lady during Lent: Third Sunday in Lent Third Sunday of Lent 2012 Many years ago, prior to the so-called “renewal” in the Church, on this particular Sunday all through the Catholic world a cry would go out from pulpits as regards our need to do penance. Keep in mind that we have Confession, the Sacrament of Penance, each Saturday following Holy Mass as well as each Friday prior to Stations of the Cross, and on Sunday morning. Let us use the wonderful Sacrament so that we might correct our wrongs and defects so that we might continue into Lent and be able to fully celebrate the wonderful Resurrection of Our Lord. Let us make certain that we use the Sacrament of Penance to correct ourselves, not so as to make ourselves appear pious before men. “Yea, rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.” We hear today words of praise for the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Gospel today. These words gave Our Lord an opportunity to pronounce on Mary His Mother, the highest praise possible. Mary was the first and most of all blessed and kept with the greatest of faith, humility, with love, all that she heard which was the word of God and kept it. “Mary kept all these words in her heart.” Among all that God created as regards rational creatures, Mary is the highest example of holiness, and it is on this foundation and blessedness that God established in her the great honor and privilege of being the Mother of His Incarnate Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church of course urges us to have a real and constant devotion toward the Blessed Virgin Mary; a devotion which is really just an application of her own doctrine on the Communion of Saints. By this action of the Church we have the Blessed Virgin Mary presented to us as the ideal, the example; we have our model directed to us which should induce us to have a zeal for the salvation of our souls, a zeal and real love for our Church and Our Lord Jesus Christ…just as she did and does in eternity. As Catholics we are confident in having recourse to her powerful intercession as the Mother of God. The Holy Bible begins and continues and closes with Jesus…but also with Mary. In that terrible hour when we recall the fall in paradise, God said to Satan: “I will place enmities between thee and the woman, between her seed and thy seed; thou shalt lie in wait for her heel, and she shall crush thy head.” (Genesis 4;15) We find at the end of the Bible, in the Book of the Apocalypse, that this book closes with written and inspired word of God with the same revelation that was revealed in the book of Genesis. We have these words: “The old serpent, Satan hated and persecuted the woman because of her child, who hath redeemed all peoples…but the dragon prevailed not…and the child was taken up to heaven and to His throne, from whence He ruleth the nations.” (Apoc. 12) Through all the ages the prophets sang of Mary in their visions of the Messiah. “Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising -fair as the moon, bright as the sun, and terrible as an army in battle array?” (Canticles 6) And again in the Old Testament we read “Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and He shall be called Emmanuel, God with us.” In the New Testament we read “The angel of the Lord was sent from heaven to a Virgin of Nazareth whose name was Mary. And entering, he said to her: “Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou above all women.” Our Blessed Mother consented completely to the will of God “behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word” and so with this consent, the mystery of the Divine Incarnation was instant and accomplished through her: “the word became Flesh, and dwelt among us.” The Virgin Mary is therefore the Mother of God; and so we use this title often to give veneration and respect to the Blessed Mother as we call Mary with all devotion. Mary herself acknowledged al of this when she uttered “My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. For He that is might hath done great things in me; and behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” In the acceptance on the par tof Mary to participate in the divine plan, this consent of hers also mean that she would have to embrace all the cruel torments of the Passion and Death of her Divine Son and so we especially call Mary the Mother of Sorrows and the Queen of Martyrs. These titles we use are of course an expression of the love and gratitude that we have towards Mary, the Mother of God. St. John speaks of Mary in heaven: “A great sign appeared in Heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and crowned with the stars.” Mary is now in heaven where she intercedes for her children here on earth, where she watches over the needs and concerns of the Church of her Divine Son here on earth. During this Lenten season, let us meditate on the life of Mary, especially try to imitate her virtues, her example of obedience; her faith in God and her faith in all the truths of our holy Catholic religion: “Blessed are thou that thou didst believe.” Let us remember her holy fear of the Almighty “Holy is His Name” she uttered. Never take the name of God in vain. “His mercy is from generation unto generation to them that fear in Him.” -again, her humility, her patience, her charity. If anyone fears Confession, let Mary guide you so that by your recourse to her, you will be filled with confidence and sin can be destroyed within you. Let us walk this Lent with Mary, let us, especially those in the Sodality of Our Lady, endeavor to be led safely by Mary as we go through this life hopefully looking towards heaven, placing our hands in the hand of Mary as our guide. Our Lady during Lent: Third Sunday in Lent Third Sunday of Lent 2012 Many years ago, prior to the so-called “renewal” in the Church, on this particular Sunday all through the Catholic world a cry would go out from pulpits as regards our need to do penance. Keep in mind that we have Confession, the Sacrament of Penance, each Saturday following Holy Mass as well as each Friday prior to Stations of the Cross, and on Sunday morning. Let us use the wonderful Sacrament so that we might correct our wrongs and defects so that we might continue into Lent and be able to fully celebrate the wonderful Resurrection of Our Lord. Let us make certain that we use the Sacrament of Penance to correct ourselves, not so as to make ourselves appear pious before men. “Yea, rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.” We hear today words of praise for the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Gospel today. These words gave Our Lord an opportunity to pronounce on Mary His Mother, the highest praise possible. Mary was the first and most of all blessed and kept with the greatest of faith, humility, with love, all that she heard which was the word of God and kept it. “Mary kept all these words in her heart.” Among all that God created as regards rational creatures, Mary is the highest example of holiness, and it is on this foundation and blessedness that God established in her the great honor and privilege of being the Mother of His Incarnate Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church of course urges us to have a real and constant devotion toward the Blessed Virgin Mary; a devotion which is really just an application of her own doctrine on the Communion of Saints. By this action of the Church we have the Blessed Virgin Mary presented to us as the ideal, the example; we have our model directed to us which should induce us to have a zeal for the salvation of our souls, a zeal and real love for our Church and Our Lord Jesus Christ…just as she did and does in eternity. As Catholics we are confident in having recourse to her powerful intercession as the Mother of God. The Holy Bible begins and continues and closes with Jesus…but also with Mary. In that terrible hour when we recall the fall in paradise, God said to Satan: “I will place enmities between thee and the woman, between her seed and thy seed; thou shalt lie in wait for her heel, and she shall crush thy head.” (Genesis 4;15) We find at the end of the Bible, in the Book of the Apocalypse, that this book closes with written and inspired word of God with the same revelation that was revealed in the book of Genesis. We have these words: “The old serpent, Satan hated and persecuted the woman because of her child, who hath redeemed all peoples…but the dragon prevailed not…and the child was taken up to heaven and to His throne, from whence He ruleth the nations.” (Apoc. 12) Through all the ages the prophets sang of Mary in their visions of the Messiah. “Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising -fair as the moon, bright as the sun, and terrible as an army in battle array?” (Canticles 6) And again in the Old Testament we read “Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and He shall be called Emmanuel, God with us.” In the New Testament we read “The angel of the Lord was sent from heaven to a Virgin of Nazareth whose name was Mary. And entering, he said to her: “Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou above all women.” Our Blessed Mother consented completely to the will of God “behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word” and so with this consent, the mystery of the Divine Incarnation was instant and accomplished through her: “the word became Flesh, and dwelt among us.” The Virgin Mary is therefore the Mother of God; and so we use this title often to give veneration and respect to the Blessed Mother as we call Mary with all devotion. Mary herself acknowledged al of this when she uttered “My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. For He that is might hath done great things in me; and behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” In the acceptance on the par tof Mary to participate in the divine plan, this consent of hers also mean that she would have to embrace all the cruel torments of the Passion and Death of her Divine Son and so we especially call Mary the Mother of Sorrows and the Queen of Martyrs. These titles we use are of course an expression of the love and gratitude that we have towards Mary, the Mother of God. St. John speaks of Mary in heaven: “A great sign appeared in Heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and crowned with the stars.” Mary is now in heaven where she intercedes for her children here on earth, where she watches over the needs and concerns of the Church of her Divine Son here on earth. During this Lenten season, let us meditate on the life of Mary, especially try to imitate her virtues, her example of obedience; her faith in God and her faith in all the truths of our holy Catholic religion: “Blessed are thou that thou didst believe.” Let us remember her holy fear of the Almighty “Holy is His Name” she uttered. Never take the name of God in vain. “His mercy is from generation unto generation to them that fear in Him.” -again, her humility, her patience, her charity. If anyone fears Confession, let Mary guide you so that by your recourse to her, you will be filled with confidence and sin can be destroyed within you. Let us walk this Lent with Mary, let us, especially those in the Sodality of Our Lady, endeavor to be led safely by Mary as we go through this life hopefully looking towards heaven, placing our hands in the hand of Mary as our guide. Extravt Fr. Brown, Holy Rosary Chapel