Make a Little Crown for Your Statue of Our Lady. Father Reto Nay 31st of May 2011 Sedrun, SwitzerlandMore
Make a Little Crown for Your Statue of Our Lady.
Father Reto Nay
31st of May 2011
Sedrun, Switzerland
Father Reto Nay
31st of May 2011
Sedrun, Switzerland
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May 31 THE QUEENSHIP of MARY
From the earliest centuries of the Catholic Church, Christians have addressed suppliant prayers and hymns of praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the hope they have placed in the Mother of the Saviour has never been disappointed. They have looked upon Her as Queen of Angels, Queen of Patriarchs, Queen of Prophets, Queen of Apostles, Queen of Martyrs, Queen of Virgins …More
May 31 THE QUEENSHIP of MARY
From the earliest centuries of the Catholic Church, Christians have addressed suppliant prayers and hymns of praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the hope they have placed in the Mother of the Saviour has never been disappointed. They have looked upon Her as Queen of Angels, Queen of Patriarchs, Queen of Prophets, Queen of Apostles, Queen of Martyrs, Queen of Virgins. Because of Her eminence, She is indeed entitled to the highest honors that can be bestowed upon any creature. Saint Gregory Nazianzen called Her Mother of the King of the entire universe, and the Virgin Mother who brought forth the King of the entire world.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII, in his Encyclical Letter of October 11, 1954, “On the Royal Dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Institution of Her Feast”, ordaining its celebration throughout the world every year on May 31st, reminds us of what Pope Pius IX had said of Mary: “Constituted by the Lord as Queen of Heaven and earth, and exalted above all the choirs of Angels and the ranks of the Saints in heaven, standing at the right hand of Her only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, She petitions most powerfully with Her maternal prayers, and obtains what She seeks.”
Pope Pius XII adds another ordinance: “We ask that on the feast day be renewed the consecration of the human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Upon this is founded a great hope that there may arise an era of happiness which will rejoice in the triumph of religion and Christian peace. Therefore let all approach, with greater confidence than ever before, to the throne of mercy and grace of our Queen and Mother, to beg help in difficulty, light in darkness and solace in trouble and sorrow.” In asking this, the Holy Father was responding to the request of the Virgin Herself at Fatima in 1917, that the world and each soul individually be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart. She promised that it will be then that “a time of peace will be given to the world.” Do not Mary’s rights as Queen require respect? And will we deny to Her maternal Heart the love it merits, for twenty centuries of uninterrupted intercession on behalf of Her children?
Source: Heavenly Friends: a Saint for each Day, by Rosalie Marie Levy (Saint Paul Editions: Boston, 1958).
SAINT PETRONILLA
Virgin
(First century)
Among the disciples of the Apostles, in the primitive age of Saints, this holy virgin shone like a bright star in the Church. She lived when Christians were more solicitous to live well than to write much; they knew how to die for Christ, but they did not compile long books in which vanity often has a greater share than charity, and thus no particular account of her actions has been handed down to us. But how eminent her sanctity was we may judge from the luster by which it was remarked amid Apostles, prophets, and martyrs.
Saint Petronilla is the daughter of the Apostle Saint Peter. We know from the Gospel that Saint Peter was married before his call from Christ, and Saint Clement of Alexandria assures us that his wife, Saint Perpetua, attained to the glory of martyrdom. On that occasion, Peter himself encouraged her, bidding her to remember Our Lord.
Although some authors are not certain whether Saint Petronilla was more than the spiritual daughter of that Apostle, the Bollandists assure us that she was indeed the child of the two holy Saints and martyrs. She dwelt in Rome also, and vowed her virginity to Christ. When suitors presented themselves, she begged her Lord to take her from this world, and her request was granted. She was buried on the road to Ardea, where in ancient times a cemetery and a church bore her name. Her relics have been since 1606 in a chapel dedicated to her in the Basilica of Saint Peter.
Reflection. With the Saints, the great end for which they lived was always present to their minds, and they thought every moment lost in which they did not make some advances toward eternal bliss. How will their example condemn, at the last day, the trifling frivolities and the greater part of the conversation and employments of the world which aim at nothing but present
amusement, and forget the only important affair — that of eternity!
www.magnificat.ca/cal/engl/05-31.htm
From the earliest centuries of the Catholic Church, Christians have addressed suppliant prayers and hymns of praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the hope they have placed in the Mother of the Saviour has never been disappointed. They have looked upon Her as Queen of Angels, Queen of Patriarchs, Queen of Prophets, Queen of Apostles, Queen of Martyrs, Queen of Virgins. Because of Her eminence, She is indeed entitled to the highest honors that can be bestowed upon any creature. Saint Gregory Nazianzen called Her Mother of the King of the entire universe, and the Virgin Mother who brought forth the King of the entire world.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII, in his Encyclical Letter of October 11, 1954, “On the Royal Dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Institution of Her Feast”, ordaining its celebration throughout the world every year on May 31st, reminds us of what Pope Pius IX had said of Mary: “Constituted by the Lord as Queen of Heaven and earth, and exalted above all the choirs of Angels and the ranks of the Saints in heaven, standing at the right hand of Her only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, She petitions most powerfully with Her maternal prayers, and obtains what She seeks.”
Pope Pius XII adds another ordinance: “We ask that on the feast day be renewed the consecration of the human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Upon this is founded a great hope that there may arise an era of happiness which will rejoice in the triumph of religion and Christian peace. Therefore let all approach, with greater confidence than ever before, to the throne of mercy and grace of our Queen and Mother, to beg help in difficulty, light in darkness and solace in trouble and sorrow.” In asking this, the Holy Father was responding to the request of the Virgin Herself at Fatima in 1917, that the world and each soul individually be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart. She promised that it will be then that “a time of peace will be given to the world.” Do not Mary’s rights as Queen require respect? And will we deny to Her maternal Heart the love it merits, for twenty centuries of uninterrupted intercession on behalf of Her children?
Source: Heavenly Friends: a Saint for each Day, by Rosalie Marie Levy (Saint Paul Editions: Boston, 1958).
SAINT PETRONILLA
Virgin
(First century)
Among the disciples of the Apostles, in the primitive age of Saints, this holy virgin shone like a bright star in the Church. She lived when Christians were more solicitous to live well than to write much; they knew how to die for Christ, but they did not compile long books in which vanity often has a greater share than charity, and thus no particular account of her actions has been handed down to us. But how eminent her sanctity was we may judge from the luster by which it was remarked amid Apostles, prophets, and martyrs.
Saint Petronilla is the daughter of the Apostle Saint Peter. We know from the Gospel that Saint Peter was married before his call from Christ, and Saint Clement of Alexandria assures us that his wife, Saint Perpetua, attained to the glory of martyrdom. On that occasion, Peter himself encouraged her, bidding her to remember Our Lord.
Although some authors are not certain whether Saint Petronilla was more than the spiritual daughter of that Apostle, the Bollandists assure us that she was indeed the child of the two holy Saints and martyrs. She dwelt in Rome also, and vowed her virginity to Christ. When suitors presented themselves, she begged her Lord to take her from this world, and her request was granted. She was buried on the road to Ardea, where in ancient times a cemetery and a church bore her name. Her relics have been since 1606 in a chapel dedicated to her in the Basilica of Saint Peter.
Reflection. With the Saints, the great end for which they lived was always present to their minds, and they thought every moment lost in which they did not make some advances toward eternal bliss. How will their example condemn, at the last day, the trifling frivolities and the greater part of the conversation and employments of the world which aim at nothing but present
amusement, and forget the only important affair — that of eternity!
www.magnificat.ca/cal/engl/05-31.htm